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Many JSTOR articles are now (sort of) free to the public

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    > Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to 
    > three articles for free every two weeks.

Calling that free is seriously insulting to aaronsw.

  > The new additions bring more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 800 scholarly
  > societies, university presses, and academic publishers into the Register & Read
  > offerings.

It looks like we only need to register 1.5 million accounts.

Which, for the record, is totally doable.

Right. Someone released the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (originally held only by JSTOR), which is a start:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789709

    >   This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling
    > 33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
    > and which should be  available to everyone at no cost, but most
    > have previously only been made available at high prices through
    > paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosop...

Btw, the court documents from 2011-2012 show that aaronsw transferred his collection to an unidentified server in China. Maybe he has a deadman's switch? Or maybe it's time I go on a modern-day pirate treasure hunt.. yarr.

We will always remember and thank you Aaron when we hear "JSTOR"

https://public.resource.org/aaron/

With all the sharing of movies and music -- aren't these articles being shared somewhere else on the internet?

> Some JSTOR articles are now free as in beer to the public

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