Comments on: POST: Researching While Unaffiliated https://dhandlib.org/post-researching-while-unaffiliated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-researching-while-unaffiliated where the digital humanities and librarianship meet Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:57:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sean Power https://dhandlib.org/post-researching-while-unaffiliated/#comment-190742 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:57:42 +0000 https://dhandlib.org/?p=49120#comment-190742 Thanks for this. This is a great article to highlight. In the modern academic environment, useful academic affiliation is not obviously or easily available to people who, when you consider their academic ambitions and record, ought to have it in some way.

I’m currently affiliated but spent a few years not affiliated or (even if I was, loosely) with no library access from my PhD alum (or off-site, anyhow, as I was in the different country) or place of previous employment.

I found contacting authors directly usually worked, but that obviously won’t work with everyone, and is still a slower process than searching accessible databases.

Given how many people there are who would like to do research but don’t have university affiliation, I have wondered about the possibility of setting up some kind of low-cost membership, online academic library, but it seems to require a large amount of resources to do so. Still, I do think

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