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> Most university libraries offer subscriptions to externals, too (mine does for less than 50 USD a year). Can you show me one that does? You're saying as a no

• mindcrime 14y ago
  Many, if not most, universities in the US offer something like this, from what I've seen. The one issue though, is that "non affiliated" users don't always get the same kinds of access as students / professors, at least in terms of accessing things from off-campus. So, if you, for example, went and paid the UNC-CH library your $25.00 fee for a "borrower's card"[1], you don't get the ability to access all the various digital databases and what-not from your home, but you can drive down to the library, use the computer there, and access basically everything anyone else can. Or you can go down and ask the reference librarian to hunt down a paper for you and get you a paper copy. On a semi-related note... I'm not sure what other states and jurisdictions have something like this, but here in NC we have something called "NC Live"[2], which is a portal that provides access to all sorts of online digital resources (including many which would otherwise be fairly expensive) to anyone with a library card from pretty much any county/city library in the whole state. [1]: http://www.lib.unc.edu/circ/borrowers.html http://www.lib.unc.edu/circ/borrowers.html [2]: http://www.nclive.org http://www.nclive.org