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Many JSTOR articles are now (sort of) free to the public
- ck2 14y agoWe will always remember and thank you Aaron when we hear "JSTOR" https://public.resource.org/aaron/ https://public.resource.org/aaron/
- kanzure 14y ago> Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to > three articles for free every two weeks. Calling that free is seriously insulting to aaronsw.
- benmanns 14y ago> The new additions bring more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 800 scholarly > societies, university presses, and academic publishers into the Register & Read > offerings. It looks like we only need to register 1.5 million accounts.
- jdotjdot 14y agoWhich, for the record, is totally doable.
- kanzure 14y agoRight. Someone released the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (originally held only by JSTOR), which is a start: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789709 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789709 > This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling > 33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society > and which should be available to everyone at no cost, but most > have previously only been made available at high prices through > paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosop... Btw, the court documents from 2011-2012 show that aaronsw transferred his collection to an unidentified server in China. Maybe he has a deadman's switch? Or maybe it's time I go on a modern-day pirate treasure hunt.. yarr.
- Hello71 14y ago> Some JSTOR articles are now free as in beer to the public
- josh_fyi 14y agoWith all the sharing of movies and music -- aren't these articles being shared somewhere else on the internet?