On 12 September 2011 10:50, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Given the dominant place JSTOR occupies in the sphere of "reliable sources", we are singularly fortunate (on a strategic view) that their response has been eirenic.
I would have been surprised if they had doubled down - they would pretty obviously have been onto a loser in doing so, and the academic publishing infrastructure in general is pretty on-the-nose at present.[1]
If they don't try to sneak in onerous terms of use, it might be worth WMF saying nice things about the move.
- d.
[1] e.g. in mainstream print newspapers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murd...