Archive for the tag "JSTOR"
Stranger Than Fiction
My head’s been buzzing since I first read yesterday on the New York Times Bits Blog that coder and activist Aaron Swartz was indicted under federal hacking laws for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR (the full text of the indictment is embedded at the bottom of the post). Since then I’ve read through [...]
Posted: 20 July, 2011 in Information Ethics, Open Access.
Tags: Aaron Swartz, downloading, journal articles, JSTOR, licenses, scholarly journals
Comments: 2
New and Improved – or Not?
One of the lovely surprises awaiting those who have been away from the reference desk for a while is the numerous spanking new database interfaces that have sprouted up. There seem to be more than usual this year, and while some are improvements, others, frankly, need a good spanking. One that has us particularly flummoxed [...]
Posted: 24 August, 2010 in Technology Issues.
Tags: databases, discovery tools, interfaces, JSTOR
Comments: 13