--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, Ólafur Páll Ólafsson <olafurpall@...>
wrote:
>
>
> --- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, Ólafur Páll Ólafsson
> <olafurpall@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I want to let morelife readers know that I have access to the
> > majority of the science direct journals listed at the link above.
> > Most of the journals are marked as "subscribed". If anyone is
> > interested in any of those journals they can contact me to check
> > if I have access to them. An example of a journal which morelife
> > readers might be interested in and I have access to is the "Ageing
> > Research Reviews" journal.
> >
> > [Thanks for letting us know. The page that I gave above was just
> > the "A" journals. I presume you are also subscribed to all the
> > other pages of journals as well (all 2133 journals, at last count).
> > Maybe I should move to Iceland :-) Seriously, I really think that
> > ScienceDirect has made some error here, but let's not tell them.
> > I will start organizing myself so that as soon as I read an abstract
> > from the journal contents that are sent to me, of which I realy want
> > to read the full paper, then I will send the abstract link to you.
> > To make it simpler for you, I will send you a method
> > to upload by FTP to our website. --Paul]
>
> I just figured out why I have access to these journals. I received
> the following message in an email from the university of Iceland
> which I am currently attending:
>
> "The good people of the University of Iceland have access to over
> 8,000 full-text journals and 34 databases on http://hvar.is on any
> Internet-connected computer in the country. Regrettably, an English
> interface has not yet been developed, and Icelandic will remain the
> main interface language. All the same, you can gain direct access by
> clicking the links on the left.
>
> Additionally, you can gain access on campus to 1,000 full-text
> journals and 85 databases through the University library website,
> http://www.bok.hi.is/english/third.htm , see "Databases" and "E-
> journals".
> This additional access also works for users with Internet access
> through RHÍ or VPN users (Virtual Private Network, for information
> see http://www.rhi.hi.is).
>
> cheers, Sveinn Ólafsson, Iceland Consortia administrator,
> http://hvar.is"
>
> At this link http://hvar.is/sida.php?id=26 the following is written:
>
> "hvar.is is the Icelandic countrywide access portal to electronic
> databases and e-journals. Here you find information on and access to
> the 31 databases in nationwide access, more than 8.000 full text
> journals, 350.000 literary works works of English and American
> poetry, drama and prose, 3 reference works and 1 dictionary."
>
> Apparently every computer in Iceland that has an internet connection
> can access this database. This national access is currently paid
> for by over 200 institutions and companies here in Iceland most of
> which are run by the government, so as a tax payer I am already
> paying for my access. A list of the databases Icelanders have
> access to is found at the above link. In addition to ScienceDirect
> I also have access to Springerlink articles and Blackwell Synergy
> articles, so I can provide full text articles from these
> publications as well. But I am going to reword my offer to provide
> full text articles to people. Providing people with full text
> articles is a service which takes time and I highly value my time
> and would rather like to do something else with it. Therefore I am
> certainly not going to offer this service to [just] anyone.
>
> From now on my offer to provide full text papers will be restricted
> to persons that fulfill the following requirements:
> 1. Have been members of the MoreLife Yahoo group for at least 6
> months.
> 2. Have posted at least one message at the MoreLife Yahoo group.
>
> I will however give exceptions to the above requirements to persons
> that have either given me sufficient value beforehand in one way or
> another or given me a really good reason to be excluded from the
> above requirements.
>
> [Thanks very much for this most generous offer. And please, anyone
> taking advantage of Olafur's offer, before you ask him for a full
> paper, seriously decide that you will read it. --Paul]

A recent discussion I had with Paul through email prompted me to check
out the site http://hvar.is again. After examining the site for a
while I figured out that I have free access to many more journals than
I previously thought. But as opposed to ScienceDirect, Springerlink
and Blackwell Synergy which I can access directly through pubmed, as I
usually do, these journals I can only access through the site
http://hvar.is. I hereby extend my offer of providing people
with full text articles to include articles found in these journals,
given that they fulfill the requirements above. A complete list of
the journals is found here:
http://hvar.is/upload/1/Timarit%20Landsadgangs%20April%202006.pdf
Note that for most of the journals the subscription only covers fairly
recent issues.

[Thanks again, Olafur, for your generous offer. Unfortunately, the list does not
contain at least two important journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
--Paul]