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Best Simon On 21/07/2011 19:45, "Catherine Daly" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is just this institutional affiliation that's the problem. It > effectively undermines independent scholarship. I've never lived > anywhere that had a public library subscription. > > I guess the solution is to visit San Francisco and get a card there.... > > Catherine Daly > >> Any attempt at painting JSTOR as a "bad guy" is pretty absurd. They're >> a non-profit organization that provides an invaluable service that >> most individual users don't pay for. They get free access through >> institutional affiliation. For those who don't have that sort of >> affiliation, many public libraries also make JSTOR available to card >> holders. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs | [email protected] | www.littlepig.org.uk [email protected] | Edinburgh College of Art www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.co.uk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
