JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Users anywhere now have free access to JSTOR’s Early Journal Content, a corpus of scholarly articles published in the United States before 1923 and elsewhere before 1870. That’s about 500,000 articles from 200 journals, according to JSTOR’s announcement. The digital archive said it encourages “broad use” of the material but asked that users not use “robots or other devices to systematically download these works as this may be disruptive to our systems.” In the announcement, Laura Brown, JSTOR’s managing director, said the move was not prompted by a much-publicized incident this year involving Aaron Swartz, a hacktivist charged with violations related to making unauthorized downloads of millions of JSTOR files...."

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/jstor-opens-up-u-s-journal-content-from-before-1923/33057

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.conversions oa.pd oa.jstor oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:44

Date published:

09/12/2011, 17:47