Hi,
Most licenses allow for walk-ins. The only electronic resource I can think of (that we subscribe to) with no walk-ins allowed is SciFinder Scholar. You might want to negotiate this point with IEEE next time you renew.
The above web page says articles can be purchased for $30. I followed the link to IEEE Xplore and got the usual pay-for-access screen. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
Good luck,
Diane W.
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Bolton, Karen S.
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:20 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] conference article off limits to alum
Hello,
Yesterday, an alum from our university came in to borrow three 1990s articles from our print IEEE journals. He is a member of IEEE himself and has an IEEE Xplore membership that did not allow him access to these articles in his version of IEEE Xplore. He paid for these as interlibrary loans.
He was also looking for a 1991 conference, that has been heavily cited, which he thinks is crucial for his research. It is available in our IEEE Xplore, but our license limits its use to only our own faculty, staff and students. Our ILL person is firm that we cannot send him this article.
It does not seem fair that this researcher should not get his article. The ILL person is telling him he might be able to obtain the article directly from IEEE for whatever they charge.
Has anyone negotiated terms with IEEE that would include access to alumni?
I’m not really looking for advice, I guess. Just complaining.
Karen Bolton
Serials Librarian
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Walter Schroeder Library
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
53202-3109