The Power of the Pill: Oral… : DASH Story 2017-04-08
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I am a retired professor who last taught at a small liberal arts college. I now live about two hours' drive from the nearest university library, so any trip to do substantial library research requires an overnight stay. Although I have online access to a few academic journals through my American Economic Association membership, most journals are no longer available to me unless I pay exorbitant fees for individual papers. My undergraduate and graduate institutions do not yet provide their alumni with access to JSTOR, as some universities do. This article I am accessing is one I plan to read and discuss with people in my community who look to me to find and explain to them current findings in economics and other social sciences. By helping me to keep up in my field, you are also helping to disseminate this information to a whole community of people, most of whom are retirees like me with college degrees and active minds, but only limited access to the latest scholarly research for the reasons mentioned above. We very much appreciate programs DASH that enable us to continue our lifelong learning outside the academy.
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