Sunday, February 04, 2007

Arrgh!

JSTOR
I can't believe I spent two years at Vic without knowing about this site. It has scans of Journal articles. Lots of them, including several that I personally pursued into the bowels of the Uni library looking for. That's dust, poor air conditioning, and big shelves that you have to move with a winder and look like they're about to Squash you, folks.

Dammit. 8 months ago I asked the librarian at the Information Desk about journal databases and the only one he knew about was the National Library's one, which is lovely, but exceedingly poor on Classics.

(Thanks for telling me about it, Naomi.)
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If it be any consolation, I'd never heard of it either, and I'm a classics major.
-mash

10:53 pm
Repton said...

Hmm, I knew about JSTOR. It didn't occur to me that it would be useful to you though..

My usual process for finding articles starts with Google (or Citeseer), and then if I find it on a pay site, I check if I've got access through the library.

I've got access through Massey, so if you find somehting on a site like Springerlink (which Massey gets but VUW doesn't), I can get it for you..

11:07 pm
Repton said...

Springerlink
By the looks of things, I've also got access to Cambridge Journals and IngentaConnect.

11:14 pm
Stephanie said...

Actually, this one looks quite interesting: http://www.springerlink.com/content/9a2jx92eka2katd5/?p=a23fbd9656e84a37a5a67794444778ff&pi=1

Hmm, I knew about JSTOR. It didn't occur to me that it would be useful to you though..Yeah, that's the problem, I never thought to ask, and people who knew assumed I did too. Oh well, at least I know now.

8:29 am
Repton said...

Alas, your URL doesn't work. If you give me the article title, and maybe the journal too, I can look for it..

10:58 am
Stephanie said...

Nancy A. Evans, "SANCTUARIES, SACRIFICES, AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES," in Numen, Volume 49, Number 3, July 2002, 227-254.

11:02 am
Adrexia said...

Yeah, sorry Steph. I only noticed it because I have free access through work, so when I was looking for resources it just kinda sprung up. I never knew such resources existed when I was at Otago.

I was extremely impressed with the site so I mentioned it several times on LJ when it came to essay writing. That means Mash has no excuse. ;)

Though he may not have known he could access it for free through the vic library website.

12:30 pm
Mark said...

JStor only became available at Vic about in June or so...if that makes you feel any better.

8:52 pm
Stephanie said...

"JStor only became available at Vic about in June or so...if that makes you feel any better."
Oh. Well all right then. How was your holiday?

11:05 am

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