If you have felt the frustrating experience of not being able to access the hundreds of electronic jorunals and databases since leaving FES, you may find some relief in the large number of institutions and journals that have put their documents online for free. Carla Heister, the librarian at FES, has gathered a list of these online sources in her electronic article "Providing Access to Information on a Small Budget". Here you can find a number of Internet portals and other data sources that provide access to full text articles, PhD dissertations and other written material related to the environment, sustainable development, conservation, and the like. Among the pearls of the list: the Directory of Open Access Journals, which gives access to full text articles from 2,141 journals; ECOLEX, "a gateway to environmental law" which gives access to environmental legislation and cases from all over the world; and OAIster, which has links to over 8 million free documents produced by over 600 institutions. As you may know, more relief is already on the way, with the launch this October of OARE - Online Access to Research in the Environment, an online project that seeks to provide free or almost free access to 900 institutions in 110 countries in the developing world. FES is playing a key role in the project. More in the article "Yale Program to Give Developing World Access to Global Scientific Research".