Research question - Library of Congress

[ejp626]

It's looking more likely that I will be leaving Chicago and most likely ending up in the DC area. As I am pondering this, I thought I would check in with some of the resident experts on the quality of access at the Library of Congress to the academic websites like Jstor, EBSCOhost, Sage, etc. I recently learned that the LOC has access to nearly all of these at the public terminals, but it is kind of case by case on how much access they have (how far back rather), and whether you can print the articles -- and most importantly to me whether you can download them as PDFs.

I have download access at Northwestern to nearly all the journals of interest to me (primarily the urban-oriented journals, esp. urban sociology). I am hoping access would be at least as good at LOC, so I can continue to do my research (roughly one or two days a month). Any thoughts from people who use LOC on a regular basis would be great!

Eric

[Neal Pomea]

You could become a "friend of the library" for just about any academic library in the Washington Research Consortium (Georgetown, George Washington, American, Catholic, etc.) or University System of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland University College, Bowie State University, etc.). Some of these, including College Park, are open to the general public because they are federal depository libraries that house the print publications of the federal government.