JSTOR

JSTOR = Journal StorageCreated in 1995

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JSTOR

JSTOR is a not-for-profit, founded to help academic libraries and publishers

Provides access to 1,700 journals

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JSTOR costs moneyLibraries pay JSTOR for access to journals

Individuals can also register for limited access

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Open Access Free & immediate availabil ity

on the public Internet of those works which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment

Permit any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or l ink to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing… or use them for any other lawful purpose. 

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Publishers Most publishers own the

rights to the articles in their journals.

Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them.

Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee.

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SHOULD INFORMATION BE FREE?

Aaron Swartz downloaded 4.8 mil l ions fi les from JSTOR.

He fought against keeping scholarly material behind pay wal ls.

AARON SWARTZ

Michael Francis McElroy/The New York Times

Charged with hacking into MIT to download millions of JSTOR articles Intention to share on P2P sites?

Settled with JSTOR in June 2011 by returning the materials

Faced up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fi nes for wire fraud, computer fraud and unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.

Sou rce : Schw ar t z , J ohn . “Ope n Acce ss Adv oca te I s A r re s te d Fo r Huge Dow n l oad . ” Ne w Yo rk T ime s . NYTime s . com.

19 J u l . 2011 . We b . 25 Fe b . 2013 .

AARON SWARTZ

“It’s like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library.”

– David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress

“Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.”

– Carmen Ortiz, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts

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AARON SWARTZ

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html

You are scholars.

You have the right to know how the academic publishing process works.

Information is not free.

Some journals are open access, but most are not.

JSTOR is a powerful tool—and now you know what it is.

WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

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