Free access to "American Philosophical Society" journal?

January 8, 2008 5:27 PM

Is there a free website when I can view and print articles from old copies of the journal of "The American Philosophical Society?" Even my local public library doesn't offer it for free in that they charge for printing each page and I have some very long articles from the 1800's I need to print. No emailing to another location is allowed. Thank you.
posted by Tullyogallaghan to Religion & Philosophy (7 answers total)

American Memory from The Library of Congress
Google Scholar

With some more specifics about the articles, it may be possible to dig up more (or better) sources.
posted by bonobo at 5:51 PM on January 8, 2008

According to Wikipedia, the APS's journal is titled "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society." JSTOR has digitized all issues from 1769-2001. Google Scholar indexes JSTOR, so you can start your search there.
posted by HotPatatta at 6:30 PM on January 8, 2008

If your university library or public library doesn't pay for full text access, email me and I'll email you the full text articles as PDFs.
posted by HotPatatta at 6:33 PM on January 8, 2008

Since you've already done the work of finding the content you need, you could try to turn the articles into PDFs and then email those. This is super easy if you can access the articles on a Mac (File --> Print --> Save As PDF).
posted by ArcAm at 7:39 PM on January 8, 2008

Get a library to have the articles sent to you as PDF via Interlibrary Loan. I spent years xeroxing articles into PDF's for people when I worked in ILL. If the library already has the journals on hand, obviously they won't order the articles. But otherwise, they should be fair game.

if this doesn't work, befriend someone on staff.

If that doesn't work, try haggling down the price after explaining the situation.
posted by Lieber Frau at 7:58 PM on January 8, 2008

I MefiMailed you a JSTOR username and password.

What people do at the library here is save the JSTOR articles on a usb key.
posted by stereo at 9:19 PM on January 8, 2008

Having had this argument more than a few times, I feel compelled to point out that the public library does, indeed, offer access for free. What they charge for is paper. And if you have the time to sit there and read the article, or if you have a flash drive, or (at my library at least) a blank CD, or even a box of floppies, you won't need to buy the paper.
posted by box at 8:14 AM on January 9, 2008