Question: How does one get access to a reference in a journal such as "American Journal of Community Psychology" for which the authors, unlike authors of CS papers, don't post copies of their articles on publicly accessible websites? Answer: CMU's library has subscriptions to the online, digital versions of most journals. If you're on campus, you will often be able to google an article, click on a link to the journal that hosts it and download it directly. You will have access to most resources (e.g. the ACM digital library) without doing anything special. In fact, you can go directly to ACM’s site without visiting the CMU library at all. If you're off campus, the process is a bit more convoluted. Let's take an example, an article in the journal mentioned above called "Public commitment and energy conservation." My typcial process when off campus is: 1) find the paper using google (in this case, type in the title of the paper as your google search and the first link below "Book results" is to springerlink.com. I know that springerlink.com is a database of spring journals, so I clicked on that. 2) copy the resulting url down (http://www.springerlink.com/content/j67146231r52xu11/ ) 3) go to https://www.vpn.cmu.edu/+webvpn+/index.html 4) type in your andrew username and password 5) paste the url for the paper (http://www.springerlink.com/content/j67146231r52xu11/ ) into the box labeled "go" and press go 6) this will take you to the springerlink page, but this time you will be able to download the paper. Other useful information: Library URL: |