I don't mind whether people ask for articles on this list or not, but I recently learned from the cultural studies list about the pirate university, which has a new on-line service for students and scholars searching for academic articles which are unavailable in their own institutional libraries. So this site might be a good alternative to this list for people without easy access to material they need.
It's at
http://www.pirateuniversity.org/content/pirate-university
Julie
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
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Subject: Re: on all the paper requests on this list
Hi all,
I'll second Eric's remark: in France, in our state-funded universities, ILL is not free. It is either paid by the scholar's research team (a team with often limited resources: I was once called in by my head to stop my 'unreasonable ILL expenses'. They amounted to 36 euros for one year - and the team's resources did not allow for the same access for all other researchers) or by the researcher herself, out of her personal money.
I have been lucky enough not to have to ask the list about any article, relying on other informal means and personal contacts (thanks guys!), but access is a huge problem. Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the problem: I have currently no institutional access to either Antipode or Progress in Human Geography. I have to go through ILL, and pay, or rely on friends.
So,
- well-funded libraries and free ILL do have to be supported, by all means, as they are a very rare service even in rich countries
- and I share the frustration of people having to go through the list to access knowledge
Best,
Myriam
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