Current UofL faculty, staff, and students are eligible for access via the off-campus link . Content, currency, archiving, and pricing are other variables. Sometimes the whole content of the paper version of the journal is available online. Sometimes content is available online before the paper version arrives in the mail. Sometimes the publisher imposes a time embargo on the aggregator, or provides the content, which must be reformatted by the aggregator, at the same time the paper version is distributed.
Some publishers make content available free to subscribers to the paper version of a journal.
So far, electronic versions are almost never less expensive. The University Libraries are attempting to provide access to all free electronic versions of its paper subscriptions. Those that require additional fees are being considered under our standard collection development criteria. If you wish to recommend the purchase of an electronic journal, please click here and complete a journal recommendation form. For more information about off-campus access to the library web page, click here .