Notre Dame Access to Free & Low-Cost Online Resources
Also, A few notes about Richard Williams
I try to provide most articles as PDF's, but some things are much better viewed online (when I do provide a PDF I usually include a link to the original source). As a Notre Dame student, you can get
A free subscription to the New York Times (Definitely get one. It is getting almost impossible to make good PDFs from NYT articles). Enter the school name as University of Notre Dame.
Students can also get very cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post, the Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.
Notre Dame people can get free access to the Chronicle of Higher Education by creating an account using their Notre Dame ID.
Off-campus E-Resources . See especially https://libguides.library.nd.edu/off-campus-access/online-resources#s-lg-box-20776074, which gives you quick access to online resources licensed by the Hesburgh Libraries. Libkey Nomad for Chrome, which gives one-click access to millions of scholarly articles, is also great.
A potentially useful tip for dealing with paywalls that I will deny having ever told you: Sometimes when you go to a site you will get a message like you have reached your limit of 5 free articles a month. One of the easiest ways to deal with that is to open a different browser and open the link in it. I personally usually just buy subscriptions because they are cheap for students and academics and I want to support the source so it can keep producing good material.
Some other handy things to know, at least if you are my student:
Some students seem to have very strong religious objections to including page numbers on their papers and exams. If you are one of those people, you are either going to have to change your religion or else go to confession after you hand in an assignment to me, because I really really really want page numbers on longer documents. Here are instructions for adding page numbers to PDFs, Google Docs and Microsoft Word documents.
Students occasionally complain that I don't know their names. I hate to admit it, but sometimes they may well be right. I have never been formally diagnosed, but I suspect I suffer from at least a mild case of Prosopagnosia, a neurological impairment in the ability to recognize the faces of familiar people . I score well below average on facial recognition tests. For example, I got a score of 53% on the Cambridge Face Memory Test where the average score is 80%. When I had a stroke in 2017, my therapists were stunned by how terribly I did on memory tests (whereas I just zoomed through logic and math problems.) My one consolation is that Brad Pitt sounds like he is much worse than I am! I tend to learn names better when I talk to students a bit outside of class, which is one of the reasons I like to occasionally meet with students individually. But rest assured, even if I sometimes seem to struggle with your name, I care about each and every one of my students and I hope I'll get to know you well. If you are interested, here is more information on Prosopagnosia.