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[JDPriestly]

25. The JSTOR documents on the internet should be freely accessible to everyone.

Apparently you can sign up for an account and access a few documents at a time, but the rules are very strange. I gather (and I could be wrong) that you cannot get the latest editions of articles.

I understand that editing and assembling journals costs money, but it seems to me that the journals generally are sponsored by universities or other organizations. It also seems to me that disseminating the information in the journal should be the primary goal not only of the journals but also of JSTOR.

If Wikipedia can do it, JSTOR can too.

JSTOR has a vast reservoir of information that should be available to the public without cost to the readers. Of all things, it should have public support and be free in my opinion.

We enjoy TED talks. We access those for free on the internet. Why should we have to go to a library to access articles that could be easily made available on the internet?

Why not go to the library? Because most people work during library hours. Also, when we read online we save the environment. When we go to a library and copy an article, we help destroy the environment. Save the trees. Save paper. Put these articles online, please.