[Sca-cooks] JSTOR

Suey lordhunt at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 20:54:24 PDT 2008


Johnna wrote:
> It's important at times to remind people that journal articles are more
> available these days through JSTOR and other services and that in fact 
> libraries are making
> these services available to more and more people. If not locally, then 
> regionally or through
> state library services. For instance-- (
    Johnna, the National Library of Spain is up to date as your local 
library across the street. Chile does not even know what JSTOR is and 
because of that they will not let me enter their files. We do not have 
electrical outlets to take our laptops to the Chilean National Library, 
we go with trepidation to consult dictionaries for the page we seek can 
be torn out of the volume. Contrary to Spain the employees do nothing 
but complain and are not reader friendly.
    Truly I have tried to be personally admitted to JSTOR and been 
denied access. I think that unfair as I had to prove that I am a writer, 
a serious historian to be admitted to the Spanish National Library. In 
Spain not anyone can enter the National Library as in Chile or the US, 
you have be a student with a reason to go there, a professor or prove 
you are professionally serious and have published as I. Not everyone can 
enter. Access is very limited. We are about 500 readers per day.
     Normally my husband and I try to spend 6 months in each country, 
Chile and Spain, but I had a very bad back problem and my doctors will 
not let me fly to Spain from Chile until July of 2009.  
    Yeah Johnna I have years of research on CD's thanks to living in the 
Spanish National Library for so many  wonderful years. I truly love all 
the employees, the readers and all  the recourses are at my finger tips 
but sometimes I am very sad that Chile cannot offer me that wealth and I 
cannot access JSTOR .
Suey



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