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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> Technically Speaking >> Database access.. http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1282712496 Message started by Imperium on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 3:01pm

Title: Database access..
Post by Imperium on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 3:01pm

This is jsut going out to everybody on this board.

Do you have access to:

JSTOR
Sciencedirect
Elsevier

or any other academic databases on the web in particular?

Title: Re: Database access..
Post by freediver on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:13pm

I used to until very recently.

You might have some luck at a university library.

Title: Re: Database access..
Post by Imperium on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:22pm

No universities in Dubbo. Just Charles Sturt Community College and thats just a school for nursing.

Our town library doesn't have access to anything useful. I really need to get hold of some very old American journals from the 60s-70s.

Title: Re: Database access..
Post by Equitist on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:27pm

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:22pm:

Australia's NLA has an extensive online database of old newspaper articles that can be viewed online - some of the cheesy and sexist Ads from the war era are hilariously overt...

I wonder if the Yanks have something similar happening...

Title: Re: Database access..
Post by freediver on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:30pm

From memory most of the electronic databases don't go that far back - yet. Sounds like you might have to do it the hard way.