RE: JSTOR Announces Free Early Journal Content

["Peter B. Hirtle" <pbh6@cornell.edu>]

It is a shame the JSTOR is limiting this to pre-1923 issues.  In 
my experience, most scholarly journals lived without copyright 
until the early 1960s.  The bulk of the JSTOR collection prior to 
1964 I suspect is in the public domain and could be made 
available under this program.

Peter Hirtle

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Subject: JSTOR Announces Free Early Journal Content

JSTOR announced today it is making journal content published 
prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere 
freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This "Early 
Journal Content" includes discourse and scholarship in the arts 
and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and 
other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more 
than 200 journals.

Read more: http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content

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