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

[David Gerard]

On 12 September 2011 10:50, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at 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-murdoch-socialist