JSTOR releases the access to thousands of articles and academic books for students affected by the quarantine

JSTOR it is a great digital library global is home to the academic content (articles from scientific journals, ebooks, etc) of a wide range of knowledge, scientific and humanistic. It is home to the content and facilitates the search and is maintained through the substantial subscriber agreements that it maintains with the main scientific institutions, and educational the world, among them most universities.

However, such arrangements, which often allow access to JSTOR from the internal networks of these universities, lose utility now that, by the fault of the coronavirus, the students remain isolated in their homes and away from the campus.

So your responsible they just announced that since this week and until June 30 of this year, have enabled free access to some of their materialmore than 150 scholarly journals and 6000 e-books, without the need to log in to the platform, which makes it available for use by any Internet user.

In addition, it have been announced that are coming to agreements with the publishers for that another 20,000 books become available free of charge for the users of those universities and libraries that had already signed agreements with JSTOR, as well as to students of secondary schools that did not remain up to now agreements with JSTOR.

To this is added that those universities that only they had hired you access to some of the Files to JSTOR, will be expanded temporarily your access to the set of collections no cost.

JSTOR and its controversial relationship with the ‘hacktivists’ on account of open access

JSTOR stood in the center of a polemic against the community hacktivist between 2011 and 2013after the imputation of Aaron Swartz (programmer involved in projects like Reddit, Creative Commons, or the creation of the formats RSS and Markdown) by using the network of MIT to download bulk material from JSTOR and make it available to the public. After exposure to a sentence of 50 years in prison and $ 4 million in fines, Swartz committed suicide in 2013, at the age of 26.

The case, Swartz served to put on the table the debate over the soaring costs of access to academic publications

that keep a large part of the scientific knowledge generated in the last few years away from the access of many researchers all over the world.

In fact, shortly after the deteción of Swartz, the researcher and programmer armenia Alexandra Elbakyan launched the first version of the project Sci-Huba repository that today has millions of academic articles extracted, in part, of the own JSTOR.

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JSTOR releases the access to thousands of articles and academic books for students affected by the quarantine

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