[P2P-F] JSTOR.

[Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2


The author of the article:
Michael B. Eisen <http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/>, an associate
professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California,
Berkeley, is a founder of the Public Library of Science, an organization
devoted to making research freely available.

http://www.plos.org/

Trying to find an article only to go to a page that tells you to pay 30
euros to read it is really annoying. But I think that JSTOR gets its money
from libraries around the world and to do that it needs to restrict access
to common folk.

In Greece, the libraries of all universities buy the licenses together and
from what i have been told, they were uncertain if they had enough money to
renew their subscription.



2012/1/24 Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:36 AM, robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I had some problems with JSTOR. I was suprpised to find a
> number
> > of complete articles on google scholar, and put their links on a forum.
> > However, a day, or so afterwards, I noticed that instead of the articles
> > there was a subscription form for JSTOR!
>
> I assume most people in academia have a friend with a JSTOR
> subscription who emails them requested pdfs as a favor.  I know a
> couple of people who help me out that way.  If JSTOR thinks the
> average researcher is going to pay the equivalent of a restaurant meal
> just to read a single article, they've been drinking the music
> industry's Kool-Aid.
>
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Sincerely yours,

     Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
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