Also, if you look at the web page for the journal that DOES go back to 1995, there is probably a web contact link for the journal database people themselves (you may have to dig a bit, but I just went and looked up some random journals, and they DID have publisher contact info), where you could urge them to put further backissues online. (And if they say "well, they are online, your school doesn't pay for them" you can say "well, how the jeezly much are you charging for them?" AND suggest to the subject librarian that you, at least, would find having further back issues available worth the $$$.)
Not trying to be obnoxious, just ... if this really does bother you there is stuff to do that is less extreme than abolishing copyright and more useful than harrying the person working the desk.
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Also, if you look at the web page for the journal that DOES go back to 1995, there is probably a web contact link for the journal database people themselves (you may have to dig a bit, but I just went and looked up some random journals, and they DID have publisher contact info), where you could urge them to put further backissues online. (And if they say "well, they are online, your school doesn't pay for them" you can say "well, how the jeezly much are you charging for them?" AND suggest to the subject librarian that you, at least, would find having further back issues available worth the $$$.)
Not trying to be obnoxious, just ... if this really does bother you there is stuff to do that is less extreme than abolishing copyright and more useful than harrying the person working the desk.