Cameron Neylon has rustled up a useful map of the public libraries in the UK which are set to offer free access to 8,000 commercial paywalled academic ejournals…
Very nice if you’re in the leafy Home Counties around London, not so useful for those in the industrial Midlands or the North. Although the use terms (“I can only use accessed information for non-commercial research and private study”) make any business access moot for people such as the cybersecurity boffins of Malvern or the ceramics R&D teams of Stoke-on-Trent.
Oh well, there’s always my JURN, now with added business and science ejournal goodness.
by David Haden
01 Mar 2014 at 18:33
Just looked at the map again. Birmingham and Stoke not even marked. Typical 🙁