Comment by DANmode
10 days ago
> JSTOR does actual legit work to make scientific articles easier to access
Just link (or specifically mention) a few things they’ve done that people really appreciate.
No need to keep repeating the claim.
10 days ago
> JSTOR does actual legit work to make scientific articles easier to access
Just link (or specifically mention) a few things they’ve done that people really appreciate.
No need to keep repeating the claim.
JSTOR provides digital access to print journal archives. That's useful to anyone who wants to read an old journal article without going to a physical library. I used to have to go to the library, dig out the relevant issue of Linguistic Inquiry, and photocopy it. Then in 2015, JSTOR started providing access to the entire scanned Linguistic Inquiry archive, so I could access all of those issues digitally.
I don't understand what you mean by "money-clutching noise" in your other comment. I think enabling free universal public access to historical journal articles would be a great idea. However, some public money would then need to go towards the costs of that, and some reform of copyright law might also be needed.
Public money does go to the costs of that.
That’s where most of the PDFs come from.
Hmm, no. In the case of old print journal archives scanned by JSTOR, it's JSTOR paying the cost of the scanning.
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> JSTOR provides digital access to print journal archives
So does SciHub.
SciHub mainly redistributes scans of print archives made by JSTOR and other organisations. And it does not have everything that JSTOR has. For example, this paper is not, as far as I can tell, available on SciHub:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4178697
Somehow, you appreciate SciHub without appreciating one of the organizations that did the actual work necessary to make many of those PDFs exist in the first place:
https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-and-apex-covantage-mark-2...
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