<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2</a> <div><br></div><div>The author of the article:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/" style="color:rgb(102,102,153);font-size:15px;line-height:22px;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-style:italic;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Michael B. Eisen</a><span style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, 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.</span> </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.plos.org/">http://www.plos.org/</a>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/24 Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com" target="_blank">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:36 AM, robert searle <<a href="mailto:dharao4@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">dharao4@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Personally, I had some problems with JSTOR. I was suprpised to find a number<br>
> of complete articles on google scholar, and put their links on a forum.<br>
> However, a day, or so afterwards, I noticed that instead of the articles<br>
> there was a subscription form for JSTOR!<br>
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</div>I assume most people in academia have a friend with a JSTOR<br>
subscription who emails them requested pdfs as a favor. I know a<br>
couple of people who help me out that way. If JSTOR thinks the<br>
average researcher is going to pay the equivalent of a restaurant meal<br>
just to read a single article, they've been drinking the music<br>
industry's Kool-Aid.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Kevin Carson<br>
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Sincerely yours, </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"> Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis</pre></span><br>
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