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This IS a real problem, and I feel your pain.  It's frustrating not to
be able to get to these important documents simply because your museum
or science center doesn't, or can't afford to subscribe.  I'm lucky to
be at a large university, but WE don't even have all of the resources I
need to use because we're the first research group of our kind on
campus.  I wish there was some sort of online library that had all
these journals.  Then we informal/free choice/museum educators could
join that organization and have access to the publications.  (cough,
cough...ASTC, cough)

I know that informalscience.org is working on cataloging journal
articles and is attempting to secure the rights to make them available
online.  Let's hope they succeed.  Everyone should e-mail them all of
the articles you have, or would like, so they can start adding them to
the collection.

Until then, I'll check out the infotrieve.com link you sent, I didn't
know about that till now, so thanks!

Hey Wendy and the rest of the ASTC gang, while we're suggesting things:
  how about an online research library for members?

Matthew Wenger
Flandrau Science Center
University of Arizona, Tucson


On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:37 PM, Cindy Chambers wrote:

>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> It would be a good idea to list these journals/publisher websites and
> suitable commercial companies that allow you to buy articles
> individually (such as www.infotrieve.com). You may be able to contact
> the ASTC webmaster.
>
> Unfortunately, most of these journals are only available to university
> staff and students. I can only access many articles because I have
> done external study through an Australian university. Even if I paid
> several hundred dollars as an external category borrower, I could not
> access many journals which have switched to online subscriptions for
> recent editions (all part of the open access problem).
>
> Can zoos and aquariums help out with sources of environmental
> education research?
>
> Cindy

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