Academics! Can anyone help me find these articles....

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Does anyone here have access to any online academic journal archives who would be able to get hold of any of these articles for me? I've been googling for hours and have come up blank.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Oberg, Kalervo (1960).
Cultural shock: adjustment to new cultural environments.
Practical Anthropology (or could be Practical Anthropologist) - 7, 177-182

Lysgaard, S. (1955).
Adjustment in a foreign society: Norwegian Fullbright grantees visiting the United States.
International Social Science Bulletin, 7, 45-51

Gullahorn, J. T., & Gullahorn (1963)
An extension of the U-curve hypothesis.
J.E. Journal of Social Issues, 19, 33-47

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

This looks like subscription database stuff. Got access to a university library and/or its online services?

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Yep, but none of those three show up...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. You've checked using the dedicated-database banks of library computers? What does the reference librarian tell you about accessing this stuff?

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

we have a proxy connection to the online library database.. The library itself is physically closed for the summer...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing you've tried the usual plate of databases: MLA, Lexis-Nexis, JSTOR, et al.?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Do you have access to any sort of inter-library loan service? The British Library would have them...or whatever the national library is called in the US. Dunno if that'd cost you though.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Strangely enough, it is also called the British Library over here.

Interlibrary Loan, if you're still a student/whatever, probably should not cost anything, though if the only places that have them are overseas, I don't know.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

heh, I think the equivalent is the National Library of Congress. They have all those journals in their holdings (not sure how you access them though)

http://www.loc.gov/

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Are you working on something historical? Those are really old, obscure articles. Oh Wait, my entire dissertation was old and obscure. Nevermind.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing you're not going to find these articles full-text in any online database, unless it's a superexpensive Dialog search. Most electronic databases are retrospectively indexing, and with articles going back to the 50s...well, print interlibrary loan might be the way to go.

― jennpb (jennpb), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I looked up the first author in the UCLA library database, and they have articles going back to 1947, but not the ones you want. jenn is right, they are probably not indexed yet. You could contact the journal publisher if these are must have items. ISSB and Social Issues are still around, anyway.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

We've tried JSTOR etc.. but nothing... It's for a thesis on Acculturation.. the articles are old, but are often quoted as standard texts on the subject..

thanks for your help anyway..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Actually that's not true. That guy is pretty obscure, unless you are working on Brazil. You can find plenty of acculturation cites. If this article was so important, it would be reprinted in collections, etc and easier to find.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

There is an excellent collection called _Theories of Man and Culture_ that has a lot of what you want. Kroeber, Durkheim, Benedict and so on. I'm not sure if you're looking at the arguments about acculturation (cultural diffusion, indepedent genesis, etc) but if you are there are plenty of collections of the formative works in the field. Oberg was definitely not one of them.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

This is actually for my gf's thesis, she says that Oberg's U-Curve hypothesis keeps floating around in semi scientific management literature (whatever that means!)

thanks anyway!

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

My library here in Wellington has the first and last journals, but they're print only. I suspect that might be the case for articles this old pretty much anywhere unfortunately.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that explains it. Management lit scares me. They tend to poach indiscriminately from the social sciences. Good luck to her, anyway.

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― Do you not agree, you fat junkie nutjob? (Orbit), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah none of the databases i have access to at my uni have full text of articles this old. why don't you email a uni that has them in the library and get them scanned and emailed.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

My library has the last one in print as well. One supposes that digitising all of them is a long, arduous and thankless process that isn't worth it for such ancients.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

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― j., Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:56 (twelve years ago)

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