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

[Sarah]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:40, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist
>
> 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%931932%29

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