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For #BlackFriday I decided to send my students an e-mail about the **amazing** special offers of our University #library @unibibkoeln. This was inspired by an e-mail I got this morning from a BA student who asked me whether there was any financial aid for students who needed to buy academic papers that are behind a #paywall. 15 comments
@ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln I love what you've done to share the good news on libraries! My local public library network in Australia even makes ILLs freeb(across the whole of the state of South Australia). libraries are the best value! π @ElenLeFoll is charging for ILL the norm at European unis? everywhere I have studied or taught in the States, ILL was entirely free for students and faculty (not that β¬1.50 is an egregious fee, but itβs just surprising to see any fee at all...) @tkinias @unibibkoeln Students here do have to pay the fee. But we also don't have tuition fees! @ElenLeFoll to be honest, given the political environment at US universities these days, Iβm surprised that free ILL hasnβt been abolishedβespecially as I expect itβs predominantly humanists who benefit from it @tkinias @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln It depends on the library/country, I think. E.g. at the Sorbonne library it's 5β¬ (https://www.bis-sorbonne.fr/biu/spip.php?article95) but it's free for copies. I used it only once to ask for an article that was available in one single library in France, and it was incredibly useful! We also have some pretty complex rules that can influence the price depending on whether it is for research/teaching or for yourself, etc... @jbouton wow, that takes me back a long time... twenty years, maybe? interesting that the system is almost fully automated in the States... @tkinias @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln Fortunately, emails are also possible π But yeah, as their website shows, the Sorbonne is still stuck somewhere 15 years ago π  @jbouton But wow, they have digital search! https://nubis.bis-sorbonne.fr/ π @tkinias @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln Great idea! There are many things that students should be informed of, and it's pretty sad that the βMethodologyβ classes that they often have to attend in Bachelor (at least in France) do not always efficiently teach these... @jbouton @unibibkoeln My students don't have to take any such classes... π @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln That's great advice. I didn't know about unpaywall and just installed the extension. It looks great, and looks like another excellent reason to post accepted papers on preprint servers. @ElenLeFoll @unibibkoeln More than once, Iβve had to show my students that the university library actually subscribed to the journal they needed an article from. |
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@unibibkoeln I added a postscript.
P.S.: There's one more INCREDIBLE offer: If you want to read a book that was recently published and you think that other students and/or staff might be interested in reading it, too, you can make an acquisition request. This will cost you 0β¬ and you can request that the book be reserved for you when it arrives at the #library. I've made many requests in the past and they've pretty much all been accepted so... try your luck! π
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