[WikiEN-l] JSTOR and free external links

[Andrew Gray]

On 12/09/2007, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't understand why we're promoting JSTOR, rather than linking to
> the journal directly?

JSTOR's main value (as far as I'm aware; I've never had to use it) is
for its vast archives of older material, not for contemporary
scientific literature; "linking to the journal" is pretty futile for,
say, 1930s economics. It's not quite the same situation as, say, the
Springer databases.

We should certainly cite the journal article itself properly, and
other than through laziness I don't think anyone really challenges
this. A JSTOR link is a bonus, but it's not one of many options; there
is this link or, in 95% of cases, there is no link. Take your pick.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
 (not saying either way which you should pick, mind you)
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk