JSTOR opens limited free access option non-subscribing scholars
Now JSTOR is getting ready to go one step further, by cutting a small window in its paywall for visitors who are not affiliated with any subscribing institution. The new program, called Register & Read, will soon let anybody read back filed JSTOR content at no cost.
Under the new program, unsubscribed visitors will be allowed to check out three “items” from the JSTOR archive every two weeks, which they will be able to read for free. In order to prevent piracy, the texts will be displayed as image files (so that text cannot be copied). Users will not be able to download the files.
The depletion of the traditional professoriate has produced a new demographic of unmoored scholars who might not have “the consistency of access that they want,” says Heidi McGregor, a spokeswoman for JSTOR. The goal of Register & Read would be to better serve that population — as well as others that the organization might not have even known about.
Seventy journals are participating in the pilot, including Ecology, American Anthropologist, PMLA, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, and the American Historical Review.
» via Inside Higher Ed
This is cray.
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aquarion reblogged this from annachronism and added:
While this is awesome, I keep misparsing the archive as “Javascript: The Old Republic”, and it hurts my brain.
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annachronism reblogged this from cryptogryphon and added:
you know, if you ask nicely i’ll give you my athens login.
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boscothemigh reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
sweet! I love me some JSTOR.
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nooneknowshername reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
JSTOR was one of my favorite periodical database resources when I was in school. I’m excited!!!
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lady-pilot reblogged this from figureight and added:
I think I read that there was also a torrent leaked of all of jstor a while back…
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figureight reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
I hope to see more of this in the near future. One of the saddest things about graduating university last year was that...
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ragelikeadog reblogged this from jvc and added:
Never gonna have to be without scholarship agaaaaaaaaaaiiiiin!
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a-mere-bagatelle reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
So open access is starting to be the next big thing for publishers?
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beccap reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
This is pretty exciting, research wise.
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