JSTOR Tests Free, Read-Only Access to Some Articles
Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus
January 13, 2012, 10:32 am
January 13, 2012, 10:32 am
It’s
about to get a little easier—emphasis on “a little”—for users without
subscriptions to tap JSTOR’s enormous digital archive of journal
articles. In the coming weeks, JSTOR will make available the beta
version of a new program, Register & Read,
which will give researchers read-only access to some journal articles,
no payment required. All users have to do is to sign up for a free
“MyJSTOR” account, which will create a virtual shelf on which to store
the desired articles.But there are limits. Users won’t be able to download the articles; they will be able to access only three at a time, and there will be a minimum viewing time frame of 14 days per article, which means that a user can’t consume lots of content in a short period. Depending on the journal and the publisher, users may have an option to pay for and download an article if they choose.
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