Comment by DANmode

10 days ago

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.

  • Anyone can scan, host, and curate - including one or many peers.

    We do not need any entity in between researchers and other researchers.

    • Practically speaking, no-one is going to scan centuries' worth of historical journal articles for free. And JSTOR isn’t really an entity outside the research community; it’s a non-profit that grew from within it.

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