[WikiEN-l] JSTOR "Early Journal Content" access

Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 15:14:26 UTC 2011


Will this be accessible to individuals without access to a subscribed 
institution? I've lost my access to JSTOR ever since I graduated in May.

Bob

On 9/9/2011 2:20 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> The announcement is a few days old, but I missed it (and it doesn't
> seem to have turned up on the lists yet), so:
>
> http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content
>
> "On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content
> in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to
> 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.
> This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the
> arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and
> other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than
> 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR."
>
> http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content-faqs
>
> Access is through the normal JSTOR interface (which can, if you wish,
> be tweaked to only display open content). It's not currently all
> available, but is being rolled out in chunks.
>



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