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The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and
by microarchitect 15y ago
The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data.
I think this statement means that the documents are indeed in the public domain.
I also think equark makes a valid point about the scans. Further, I don't understand why these guys are going after JSTOR, a non-profit organization. I'd be more understanding of their methods if they went after somebody like Elsevier.
- beefman 15y agoWhat do profits have to do with it?
- meow 15y agoYou are correct. This portion appears to be in public domain (though not publicly available). Non-profit or not, the fact remains that most of these documents remain behind pay-walls while still being considered to be in public domain. You have a valid point though. The access to these documents seem to be governed by agreements between various publishers with aim to share the published content among various institutions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR). So there is no point blaming JSTOR for the lack of access.