Comments on: Free JSTOR

By: Mario Zegarra

Mario Zegarra — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:22:21 +0000

I am a recent graduate from national university of Ucayali which is in the middle of rainforest in Perú , my profession is forest enginer and my thesis is called Study of five species of Cecropia genus, I try download a document very important to my thesis but i am not afiliated to JSTOR, is very frustrating because the species what i am looking for grows in my country but i need to pay to see and learn the species what i am see every day, my university is not affiliated and dendrology is not a science very popular here because the information is hard to find if any body feels what i am feel i like a little help from every person who reades this,…. my mail is mario_forest@hotmail.com and the article is flora neotropica monograph 94 from cc Berg, my english is not good than you

By: navid karbalavi

navid karbalavi — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:36:18 +0000

hi
I badly need this JSTOR article(an aprroach to architectural composition -author :jean labatut). Does anyone have access?plz help me plz plz.plz if u can help me get it and send it to my e.mail : koolip13@gmail.com
thnak u very much my friend

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:03:37 +0000

Oh boy, I can’t believe I missed this post!

“One of my biggest complaint about our academic world is about the inaccessibility of research to anyone without institutional affiliation or a hefty bank account. The impact of which is that, academic work in the humanities remains largely confined to a handful of readers and commentators.”

Hear, hear! I completely agree with you.

“I have done my share of copying articles for friends in Delhi or Karachi”

Don’t forget CM readers in S.F. whom you have done this for :)

By: liberen Jstor - Tapera

liberen Jstor - Tapera — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:59:28 +0000

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By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:31:41 +0000

Well, JSTOR began as a grant-based project: let’s find more money to make it open access. Gates Foundation, or Scaife Foundation, or Gilder-Lehrman, or something. At the very least, we ought to be able to come up with someone willing to cover the costs for low-income institutions: Harvard’s pretty flush right now, and in an open-access mood.

e-publishing is dirt cheap compared to print publishing: ASPAC maintains its e-journal for under $500 a year. I’ve heard rumors about peer reviewers getting paid, but never actually seen evidence of it (except for textbook review; that’s a commercial transaction): most of us consider it a professional obligation rather than a revenue stream.