I used to plan a full day trip once a quarter to the University  a couple of
hours away. I would sit in the reserve medical journal stacks and flip
through all the journals since my last visit.  This was prior to electronic
cataloguing. 

BUT copyright law was not as strictly enforced. Photocopying was cheap and I
would leave with a huge stack of paper.  I can still remember the smell of
the stacks.

Then the internet came along.in the beginning you had to know code to log on
but you could access data directly..even the NIH data was wide open.  Not
usable like peer reviewed journals but very interesting.

 


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