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JSTOR’s Open Access content can be read without an account

by nobita on 3/20/20, 6:52 AM with 6 comments

• by adrianh on 3/20/20, 7:46 AM

  "JSTOR's 6000 eBooks and 150 journals are now open to anyone for free. They were previously already open to anyone for free, but they are now, too."

  (With apologies to Mitch Hedberg.)

• by nobita on 3/20/20, 6:56 AM

  "Hi all! Just to clarify: All of JSTOR isn't public, but a lot is. We're happy to see your excitement. This content has been OA for a long time, but good to see awareness is growing. We are also working with universities & libraries who have been affected: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/" - JSTOR

  source: https://twitter.com/JSTOR/status/1240720644746158080?ref_src...

• by heytheresaliva on 3/20/20, 7:21 AM

  Someone tell Aaron Swartz.

• by Booktrope on 3/20/20, 8:19 AM

  Looks like, you can only access articles via a simple, and pretty useless, word search.

• by auggierose on 3/20/20, 8:22 AM

  Well, just now needed a paper from JSTOR. Couldn't even BUY a PDF of it even if I wanted to. I could have "read it online" though for free.

  Thanks, but no thanks. Reading a PDF of it now on my iPad.