Major academic databases

If I can buy porn and Netflix accounts on the DMs, why can't someone sell subscriptions to EBSCO or JSTOR? I'm okay about being a college dropout on most days--but I totally miss being able to waste hours on obscure sociology articles and discontinued journals.


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[5 Points] Einsteins_Lovechild:

Supply and demand mostly? I'm talking out of my ass, but I reckon academic subscriptions are relatively expensive and generally paid for by one's employer/university (which is why they are expensive, because the actual service consumer isn't the one paying for it, so they don't give a shit about overpaying, and the vendor knows this.. but I digress), so there isn't much demand for unauthorized access. At the other end of the spectrum, porn subscriptions are relatively cheap and generally not paid for by one's employer (except for California public school teachers with 10+ years tenure), so there are lots of people looking for unauthorized accounts, and they are cheap enough that the porn companies can't justify spending any money trying to protect any individual account from being compromised. Also the raw numbers of porn accounts versus academic accounts has got to be astronomically in favor of porn, so there's just plain more opportunity.

But hell yeah, I would love access to all that shit, and Westlaw/Lexis and similar without it costing $75 every time you click something.


[4 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

Thats dangerous stuff man. The ominous "they" kill people over academic databases, like that Aaron Shwartz guy from reddit. You'd be safer buying drugs and asking a friend who has an active subscription to academic databases for their login info. Unlike netflix, as far as I'm aware, any single registration for academic databases offers unlimited logins.


[3 Points] deletethislol:

I'd give you my access if I was smart enough to make it anonymous somehow, especially with that Nabokov UN. Kindred spirits.

EDIT: Actually you may want to try going through your public library. Depending on how big your city is I'm sure you'd at least get EBSCO.


[2 Points] gwern:

People aren't interested in providing porn and Netflix accounts for free, but people want them, so there's a business there.

But when you're selling access to EBSCO and JSTOR, you're trying to commoditize something that many people believe (to simplify) should be given away for free and are willing to help with that for free. So you're not competing with 'nothing', you are competing with Libgen and /r/Scholar and the Wikipedia Resource Request and Bishop and the LW help and...


[1 Points] reprapraper:

i'm a dropout but i retained my ebsco access :P


[1 Points] fibonacci420:

I can tell you how to get unlimited academic accts in the foreseeable future for less than $80 (blackhat though and requires small effort). Price of method $25 in btc


[1 Points] glassgun13:

If someone could do this I would pay. The things I am interested in are not popular enough to have a chance to be shared. I would pay for access for academic accounts.


[1 Points] wasitme01:

Did you already check the resources listed here:

http://www.ebscohost.com/request-information/ebscohost-for-students


[1 Points] Logic_Phallacy:

You can always request specific papers and books at /r/Scholar , there are also some pretty good resources for finding restricted access papers through other channels on there as well.


[1 Points] creambeans:

I have been trying to find someone offering access to these databases for a very long time. Most major universitys offer free acceess to JSTOR and many other very valuable market research databases.

Marketresrearch.com and researchandmarkets.com are two examples of what I am referring to, although JSTOR and Pubmed are very valuable too.


[0 Points] member_member5thNov:

jstor you should be able to get through any public library. Check your town's public library page and get a card. EBSCO you may also be able to get this way if you are part of a good local public library network.

Access to academic databases for money, like porn or netflix accounts, is tied directly to a student ID account. You can certainly get someone to get you articles, there are a number of academic sharing sites that'll help you figure this out, and a good friend would give you an id to log in, but they are unusual to find for sale. the student in question could loose privileges or be expelled depending on the school if they had been found to sell access. Even a shitty university IT department is going to notice if the same guy is logging in from his dorm and then also Idaho every day.


[-4 Points] None:

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