How to I get access to an article that my professor provided for me?

Question

I am a college student. My professor provided a link for me to read an article and I had to make an account with this website. Before I could access the article, it asked me to request access to the admin. The admin, denied my request with the words "nice try." "Nope". I found it very disrespectful and unnecessary. Does anyone know how else I could get access to the content that I need? Thank you!

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @kacchanmode

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

This is my theory:

Your professor may have provided you with a link to a page in a Confluence Cloud instance. Confluence Cloud is an Atlassian product offered as a software-as-a-service product. To access their SaaS products you have to set up an Atlassian Cloud account, which would also give you access to this Atlassian user community.

After setting up an account, then if you try to access one of their SaaS product you may receive a message that you haven't been granted access to that specific instance of that product and need to request the access from the admin.

When you do that, a message is sent to the admin for that specific instance.

There are thousands of product instances hosted by Atlassian, for thousands of companies and individuals. Each has their own administrators responsible for managing who can access those instances.

If this is the process that you went through, then the denial message came from the administrators of that instance, not from Atlassian or from this community.

If you post here the link that your professor provided we may be able to tell by looking at it if it truly is a link to a Confluence Cloud instance or another Atlassian Cloud product.

You could also go back to your professor and tell them that your access was denied. They may have contacts that they can ask to grant you the access you need.

Olha Yevdokymova_SaaSJet · Answer

Hello @kacchanmode

All articles here are accessable without the need to create account, maybe your professor provided you link for "request access to write an article" in this community it is limited. But everyone can read all articles that are posted here, you may try to search for article using search and name of your article.