{"id":5726,"date":"2015-02-25T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?page_id=5726"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:40:18","slug":"alternative-strategies-to-online-library-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/alternative-strategies-to-online-library-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative strategies to online library resources for alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately we do not have the licensing that would allow alumni access to our online resources, e.g., JSTOR, from off-campus, but here are some alternative strategies you could consider.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JSTOR offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/about.jstor.org\/rr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register &amp; Read<\/a> option that allows you to sign up to read a limited number of articles for free. When the limit is reached, you can contact your local public library for interlibrary loan options.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a> allows you to search a large number of journal articles, many of which link to open access versions that are free to all. If there is no open access version, you may request a specific journal article from your local library through interlibrary loan.<\/li>\n<li>If you can get to campus, you&#8217;ll have total access to all our resources.<\/li>\n<li>If you can get to a nearby academic library, you may have access to their resources as a &#8220;library walk-in&#8221;. Be sure to call ahead to check on local policies.<\/li>\n<li>In the State of Maine, you could use all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.digitalmaine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Maine Library databases<\/a>. These are accessible to all citizens through state funding, including some<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.maine.edu\/mainedatabases\/authmaine.asp?db=aof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a>which have many full text articles.\u00a0 A number of other states have similar arrangements; check with a local library.<\/li>\n<li>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/unpaywall.org\/products\/extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unpaywall browser extension<\/a> for Chrome, you can instantly search for an open access version of an article whenever you come across a paywall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately we do not have the licensing that would allow alumni access&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-5726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10598,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5726\/revisions\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}