Human research in the JSTOR dungeon
Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic content for free must pay to read it. Step back even further. The public -- which has indirectly funded this research with federal and state taxes that support our higher education system -- has virtually no access to this material, since neighborhood libraries cannot afford to pay those subscription costs. Newspapers and think tanks, which could help extend research into the public sphere, are denied free access to the material. Faculty members are rightly bitter that their years of work reaches an audience of a handful, while every year, 150 million attempts to read JSTOR content are denied every year.
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posted by Tom Matrullo at Sunday, January 29, 2012
2 Comments:
Tom, I was just reading a story over at ars technica http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/01/researchers-boycott-publisher-will-they-embrace-instant-publishing.ars
Are we passing laws that make access to public information more difficult?
Hi,
I'm sure there are better sources, but this is likely to be pretty current as a starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
I'm not sure there's much of a "conversation" here, just factions.
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