[WikiEN-l] JSTOR and free external links

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

Looking through dozens of articles, I find that many link to journals that  
are hosted on JSTOR. JSTOR is a fine repository of information, but it is not  
free. People researching from home do not have access to the articles that are 
 cited, and are expected to pay to see them, unless they go to a 
participating  library, usually a university library. Very few other people have access to 
 their collection.
 
The fact is that these are journal articles that can be found in most good  
libraries in their paper format. They are then free and available to everyone.  
In fact, JSTOR is simply a pay-to-view library. Consider too that the actual  
source is the journal cited, not JSTOR per se.
 
As such, I would encourage peopl to link directly to the magazine that  
contained the article, not the JSTOR collection which will charge to read it. We  
speak of free content and free images. I want to suggest that we expand the  
focus to free external links as well.
 
Danny



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