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Students, researchers lose access to documents due to cutbacks

This is a discussion on Students, researchers lose access to documents due to cutbacks within the Education & Science forums, part of the Topical Discussion category on Politics.ie. Originally Posted by johnfás All well and good in theory Bandon but it doesn't exactly help Irish universities who are ...
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All well and good in theory Bandon but it doesn't exactly help Irish universities who are not a particularly large player in the academic publishing sector. Something like that will not get off the ground without the support of a raft of very large universities - many of whom are probably in receipt of funding from organisations who would not wish what you say to happen.

As you say though, there are numerous websites online which provide an array of academic material free of charge. SSRN is another decent example.

Either way, UCD (and I assume Trinity as well) have assured students continued access to journals and databases.
Those free databases can be very helpful though. A while ago I compiled a list of the free online legal resources that I could think of (here), maybe it would be a good idea to build a comprehensive list of free online resources generally.
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The problems with reliance on state funding.
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It seems to me the problem of depending on any type of funding as a whole.
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It seems to me the problem of depending on any type of funding as a whole.
Unfortunately funding is how we do stuff...
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Hopefully these cutbacks won't affect this guy's future research:

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'Tis a poor state of affairs that we could lose our best and brightest to emigration for the sake of a few million euro.
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Fact is that 6 of the 9 million euros has been put up by the HEA, but that still leaves a shortfall of 3 million. Debate is going on at the moment as to what journals etc will be dropped. It should also be noted that some of the publishers have put up their rates by up to 19 % this year. So much for the private sector dropping its prices in the new ecomomic environment.
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