Andrew A. Adams writes > he downloaded a substantial number of papers from JSTOR (which he > explained he desired to use for text mining and could not access > that size of corpus any other way).
JSTOR seem to me like a highly commercial outlet under a cover of a non-profit operation. It seems very difficult to get anything for free from them, even if it would be to their advantage. Case in point, for the CitEc project, we tried for years to get them to agree to allow us to use the plain text from papers that we have referenced in RePEc to get references from. The resulting citation links would give them advertizing. We never got anywhere with them. When I became aware of Aaron's actions I was pleased this may raise awareness of JSTOR's locking away historic scholarly contents behind their firewall with no prospects of ever releasing it. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
