<p>I discovered in my first couple weeks at Berkeley that I had free access to every major scientific journal (Science, Nature, Physical Review, Cell, etc.) and tons of minor ones through sciencedirect.com because I was accessing them from the Berkeley network. Currently I am home for Christmas and I was wondering if there is a way I can access these journals from home somehow because I am a Berkeley student.</p>
<p>There are instructions on the Berkeley library website.</p>
<p>Found it. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>wait, we have free access?! i tried to access a bunch of research articles for a class this semester and they always said I had to pay…how were you accessing them at berkeley?</p>
<p>gilmore, were you attempting to access your articles from off campus? If so, you should first configure your browser as shown here:</p>
<p>[Connecting</a> from Off Campus-The Library-University of California, Berkeley](<a href=“Wrong shelf. | UC Berkeley Library”>Wrong shelf. | UC Berkeley Library)</p>
<p>If you were connecting from on campus, you should have been able to access the articles without doing anything…</p>
<p>I guess it would also depend on what journals you are trying to access. If it’s some really obscure journal you might not have access.</p>
<p>I’ve never found a journal so obscure that the library couldn’t get it for me, but you may have some difficulty finding electronic copies. Most of my experiences are limited to exercise and nutritional science stuff, but I’d imagine it pans out to at least a few other fields.</p>
<p>A lot of old journals articles (even from Science and Nature) don’t show up through the library directly from the article websites or even from Elsevier, ScienceDirect, or Wiley, etc. In those cases JSTOR is the only way you can get them for free.</p>
<p>Nah, the library’s website is poorly made, so finding the journal is often a hassle but if you know what journal it’s in, it isn’t that big of a problem. And JSTOR is very limited on the amount of articles it has. I used to use it all the time in high school, but if you’re doing any kind of research where you’re somewhat serious, JSTOR alone probably won’t cut it.</p>