[rms]

At Pitt I can go to the library's website and request journals they don't have access to, I get an email the next day with a .pdf of the journal article requested.

[sketerpot]

That sounds like a lot of rigamarole for a paper that might not even be worth reading.

[rms]

It's not that much harder than having to VPN into the university in the first place.

[sketerpot]

You can automate the VPN'ing. Or, in my case, I just use an on-campus computer which doesn't need to VPN. What you can't automate away into instantaneousness is the delay of waiting a day for a paper to get there.