A small comment as nuance, money is not money indeed: On 24/07/11 07:06, h w wrote: [...] > 2. Money is not money. The few times I actually paid for a JSTOR article it > was about $15 for a short article. Note: 2,000,000,000 (2 billion) people > live on less than a dollar day. A $15 article represents about 2 weeks total > wages.
I'm not sure how many of those 2 billion currently have the literacy and knowledge skills to benefit from access to articles in JSTOR, but for several countries in development/in transition, there are license deals made through EIFL: http://www.eifl.net/licensing "Average discounts negotiated are over 98%, and we save our partner libraries in excess of US$140 million each year in subscription fees." --rolf # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
