[lit-ideas] Re: JSTOR: entirely Robert Paul's fault
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:43:05 -0500
Robert retorts: I feel your pain.
Pain? Do you know what it's like to ransack dumpsters in order to
salvage a _World Book Encyclopedia 1962 Yearbook_ to continue research
of an epic poem about the life of Hank Aaron?
Pain? Do you know what it's like to stand on 12th Street in a bitter
winter wind, your frostbitten fingers copying relevant text from Strand
Bookstore bargain-cart books onto discarded menus?
Do you know that pain? Do you? Do you really? I don't. Just asking.
Seriously, though ... why isn't JSTOR free for all searchers? Without a
subscription to JSTOR, one must routinely start a Google Scholar search
on page 19 of the results. You'd think all the colleges and universities
could underwrite more democratic access to knowledge. Jefferson's
natural aristocracy and all that. Or maybe it would just open up a
gigantic new can of plagiarism methods...
Best to all,
Eric
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