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"Jeff" <jorg826@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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cecilia wrote:
"Don Moody" wrote:
If you really want to get deeply into technical topics it is
always worth seeing how you can hook up to JSTOR. Some
professional institute memberships carry access as a right. The
nearest serious university or technical library to you will almost
certainly be a subscriber and you may get access with reading
privileges.

Not without an Athens password, I've been told at my local place.
While entitled to read and borrow I'm not entitled to an Athens
password.
That is also the situation at the two University Libraries to which
I have access.

If such libraries will not, for whatever seems to them good reason,
give you a password the other route I mentioned is membership of an
institute which includes it as part of its membership privileges. Toy
pay your annual sub and take the journal and other benefits of the
institute, and you'll find your password is (in my experience) the
renewal number of the subs form. The big disadvantage of going this
route is that the membership services provider will ask you to drop
the security on your PC so they can place their software on it. In my
case, and for very good reason of protecting vulnerable people, I am
not prepared to let anybody put on my computer any program which
passes information to them at their will. Others may have different
standards of security and find the intrusion worthwhile. Or maybe they
can adopt the simple solution of having sensitive personal data on one
computer and using another for JSTOR searches or dealing with others
who want to plant security-bypassing software.

In effect, the library solution is that solution because sensitive
personal data is left at home on your own PC. The time will have to
come when JSTOR is available without security-breaching requirements.
It'll take just one case of serious personal damage to change the
access method. It won't be any of the ex-inmates of orphanages,
post-adoptees, or professionals unemployable through disability or
disadvantage who are the current cases on my computer. They have
enough woe without risking some marketeer accessing case material
given in complete confidence.

Don


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