Thank you so much for this information about archive.org, I’m going to look at the form and see if my disabilities count. (If it does, you might just have saved my life!) Academic access is such a difficult thing. I’m in a French university (and not one of the big Parisian ones) so I have access to a few things but not to any UK or US based website, which means I miss out on most resources written in English, and they’re often the only things that exist on the topics I research.
At the time I did it, the form asked you to explain the way your disability impacted your ability to work with printed books and didn’t have a prescribed list of conditions. that worked really well for me as my condition doesn’t commonly affect people’s ability to read so it’s not a standard option on those drop down lists. I really hope it works out for you and is available in all areas - it’s been a lifesaver for me!
i’m never quite sure about the legal situation of this, but sci-hub allows you to access pay-walled academic papers. very helpful if you don’t have a uni that pays for papers :) https://www.sci-hub.st/
this is a very useful post
Thank you!! That’s a lovely thing to hear, it took so many more hours to write than i was expecting when I started
Thank you so much for this information about archive.org, I’m going to look at the form and see if my disabilities count. (If it does, you might just have saved my life!) Academic access is such a difficult thing. I’m in a French university (and not one of the big Parisian ones) so I have access to a few things but not to any UK or US based website, which means I miss out on most resources written in English, and they’re often the only things that exist on the topics I research.
At the time I did it, the form asked you to explain the way your disability impacted your ability to work with printed books and didn’t have a prescribed list of conditions. that worked really well for me as my condition doesn’t commonly affect people’s ability to read so it’s not a standard option on those drop down lists. I really hope it works out for you and is available in all areas - it’s been a lifesaver for me!
i’m never quite sure about the legal situation of this, but sci-hub allows you to access pay-walled academic papers. very helpful if you don’t have a uni that pays for papers :) https://www.sci-hub.st/