On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:40, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murd...
That's an interesting article (not read the other ones yet). Carcharoth
Is this something the Wikipedia Foundation could become involved in -- the creation of a free global archive of academic papers?
I started an article yesterday on a political controversy in Kenya in 1929 about female circumcision -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision_controversy_%281929%E2%80%9...
I was relying in part on a paper from 1976 on jstor, for which they were asking $34. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1594780
So the article remains a stub for now. :)
But really, this is extortionate, and it's in no-one else's interests, because the chances of someone paying $34 for an old article on such an obscure issue are slim to vanishing, so the only consequence of the high price is that no one gets to see it.
Sarah