Journal Access
One of the things that is taking a while to get used to, moving to a new school, is the new (lower) level of online access to journals. My undergraduate university had pretty wide access to almost any biomedical or physical journal that I wanted access to. It might be because it had a medical school attached, or something. I was pretty spoiled.
My new university, though, doesn’t have a medical school, and (maybe as a consequence) it doesn’t have as much access to online journals. Now, I wouldn’t complain if some of the journals that I don’t have access to were really obscure, or if they were medical journals oriented purely towards clinical practice.
But the Nature subjournals?? I mean, they’re not that big, certainly not as big as their parent, but they have some very non-obscure things going on in there, and most are definitely not clinical journals. Not only that, but genetics is something that the new university is trying to push, at least in the past few years, and yet no Nature Genetics? No Nature Chemical Biology? Not even Nature Cell Biology?
Weird. Have I been spoiled too much by my previous university, or is it too unreasonable to ask for a few of the major second or third tier journals in their electronic form?
EDIT: Wow, I feel like a total goof. False alarm. For some reason, it worked this afternoon, though it wasn’t working no matter what I tried yesterday. I do have access to the Nature subjournals. Very strange, since other journals were working yesterday; it was only the Nature subjournals that weren’t…
