Comment by DANmode
10 days ago
Anyone can scan, host, and curate - including one or many peers.
We do not need any entity in between researchers and other researchers.
10 days ago
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.
I think we’re talking past each other mostly because I start to lose value on most research for my topics of interest that are more than two or three decades old, let alone five or six.
This may be different for others.
So, this discussion started with me saying that:
> [JSTOR is] a non-profit that scans old journal articles that would otherwise be a huge pain to access
You'd think that would pretty obviously include the vast swathes of material published before the internet and PDF preprints were a thing (and the considerable amount of subsequent research that just never got uploaded to anyone's website, for whatever reason).
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