Athens access?

[Ovingite]

I hope I'm not transgressing by posting this here, but I'm guessing that many of you will be trying to keep up to date with the latest MPN research, so may have encountered and solved this problem. Anyway, here goes:

I have noticed that many online medical journals and research papers require an Athens account in order to view them. As it's been a few years (!!!) since I had a Uni email address I am struggling to find a way in. Does anyone know of a way to open an Athens account without being in full time education?

Many thanks

John

[Raphael_UK]

Hi John, I think it's so much a uni email they need, but a qualifying criteria ie if you work in a professional capacity for the NHS..

[Ebot]

I’d love to know too! I miss access to journals etc.

[Susana7]

Hi John,

Many journals are only accessible to subscribing universities. I am an academic in one of UK’s leading universities but even then I sometimes find I cannot access certain medical journals as my institution does not subscribe to them because we don’t have a medical school...

But there is a growing move towards open access from research councils and so often authors will post the accepted version of the published paper in their own institution repositories, which are freely accessible. Research Gate is another repository where often authors post their publications.

Susana x

[Rachelthepotter]

Hi John

The mpn reaearch foundation sendout a newsletter with MPN research updates . You can sign up for the newsletter at this link.

mpnresearchfoundation.org/S...

And researchers are often very good about sending individuals like us copies of their own papers to you if you email them .

[Ovingite in reply to Rachelthepotter]

Thanks Rachel. I have signed up. It looks like a very useful source of information