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

JSTOR’s Open Access content can be read without an account(thenextweb.com)

17 points by nobita 6 years ago | 6 comments

adrianh 6 years ago |

"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.)

nobita 6 years ago |

"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...

anaphor 6 years ago | |

Came here to say the same thing. The title is incredibly misleading. They aren't giving access to anything that wasn't already available.

heytheresaliva 6 years ago |

Someone tell Aaron Swartz.

Booktrope 6 years ago |

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

auggierose 6 years ago |

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.