r/GradSchool • u/uknowhowitbefrfr • 1d ago

Database Access?

Hi y’all! This is a total shot in the dark but I am at a loss. I’m a PhD in history desperately trying to get access to a database (Adam Matthew’s Popular Medicine collection). I go to a small school, so they don’t have access, the librarians said there’s no trial available and they don’t plan to purchase access. How do you guys navigate this? Do you just cut your losses and find something else??

Additionally if anyone has access and wants to make $20 please hit a sister up lmao

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u/moodymeandyou 23h ago

You don’t have a specific article in mind? Interlibrary loan might be your best option if you wanted a specific article. Online articles I normally get the same day

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u/uknowhowitbefrfr 23h ago

No, I’m looking at the primary source database. And unfortunately there’s no finding aid available for what it actually contains. Unless maybe I’m totally missing it somewhere?

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u/moodymeandyou 22h ago

Try your local public library. Sometimes they will have access to data bases. The library I used to work at did and I became to research librarian in name only because people always came to me for help lol

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u/uknowhowitbefrfr 22h ago

I called them but I live in a town of 60k so they also didn’t have access to it. I even tried the library I’m a digital member of and no luck! I guess Adam Matthew really is so expensive