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Sophie ([personal profile] sophistry) wrote2008-03-21 03:52 pm
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Oh MY GOD, could it be any more difficult to get my hands on some fucking newspaper articles.

Don't even talk to me about Trinity's microfilm newspaper archives.

Trinity apparently has subscription to Times Online/Sunday Times, but not their online archives.

National Library does not allow photocopying of newspapers.

Times Online/Sunday Times archive is NOT ACCEPTING NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Newstext.com.au archive has articles, but accepts subscriptions of 10 credits or more - AU$17.50. Whatever, I only want six articles, but whatever. Fine.

Except OH WAIT, SURPRIES, articles from UK newspapers cost TWO CREDITS each.

Can I top up by only two credits? Of course not!

News media: you are on notice.

(I'm not on strike, for many reasons - the simplest of which being, as pointed out by many, that not only will it affect site traffic to the approximate volume of a mouse's widdle subtracted from the ocean, but that hello, SUP/LJ want fandom to GTFO.)
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[identity profile] toko.livejournal.com 2008-03-21 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you need? I have Times Digital Archive access.
sophistry: ([Classics] skull)

[personal profile] sophistry 2008-03-21 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually have what I need, now - the Times' contributions to an epic, publication-spanning archaeolowank in the first half of 1996 about whether or not the Romans invaded Ireland. People who complain about how wanky fandom can be have obviously never seen academics go at it, particularly through the he-said-she-said proxy of journalists that are only too happy to enable them.

(Yeah, my dissertation is basically on the Classics version of the MsScribe wank.)

[identity profile] toko.livejournal.com 2008-03-21 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, I know just how wanky academia can get -- recovering political science grad student, here. Does classics have an elaborate system of social snobbery based on research methodology, or is that just my own little disciplinary ghetto?
sophistry: ([Classics] belvedere)

[personal profile] sophistry 2008-03-21 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Not as far as I can discern, but I suspect that's usually because academics can't get past their initial indignation that so-and-so did not refer to their work. We do have conspiracy theories and accusations of cover-ups, though - and at least one instance in this debate of someone coming perilously close to breaking Godwin's Law.

I've not yet seen anyone compare the Irish archaeological orthodoxy to those bitchy girls in high school, but it is not exactly difficult to read between the lines. Richard Warner is obviously just butthurt because he never got invited to all the cool archaeology parties.
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