Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles →
The way I see it, that’s 150 million chances lost to improve the quality of the Internet. JSTOR, as the keeper of so much great scholarly work, should be one of the Internet’s dominant suppliers of facts and serious research. But if something is not publicly available, key gatekeepers like journalists and Wikipedians, move to the best available source, even if they know that there probably is a better source behind JSTOR’s paywall. So, instead, JSTOR’s vast troves of valuable information remain within academia and the broader Internet’s immune system is that much weaker.
Destroy the publishing-industrial-complex!
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I’m dreading the day I lose my rights to use JSTOR. The fact is though, servers cost money. JSTOR doesn’t have ads on...
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What I find worst with JSTOR, is the fact they block content to students by charing an exorbitant price. Not all school...
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Destroy the publishing-industrial-complex!
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Here is a university library’s effort to make as many of those peer-reviewed writings free to the public. I really like...
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Of course, it isn’t really up to JSTOR since they pay journals for the rights to distribute content owned by those...
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