Tip: If you are really hurting for some JStor (or what have you) access, simply saunter over to your nearest large research university and put up a flyer offeri

Tip: If you are really hurting for some JStor (or what have you) access, simply saunter over to your nearest large research university and put up a flyer offering somebody $500 a semester in exchange for access to their library proxy credentials. If your inbox does not have 20 responses within a day, I'll eat my hat. (Actually you could get by for way less than that, but the high dollar figure makes it seem less sketchy. After all, they're probably also giving up access to their grades, course registration, etc.) Also, be kind to publish-or-perish. It and tenure go hand in hand; when you have lifetime employment at 35, some sort of incentive is required to make the work happen :-) Lastly, the reason more authors don't post web copies of their publications is that you are expressly disallowed from doing this when you sign over the copyright to the publisher. You can post a late revision, but the simple act of downloading a copy of your own published article and putting it up, is a no-no. (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyright#pdf http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/copyrig...) Pretty incredible huh.