[GOAL] Re: Aaron Swartz RIP

[Thomas Krichel]

  Andrew A. Adams writes

> he downloaded a substantial number of papers from JSTOR (which he
> explained he desired to use for text mining and could not access
> that size of corpus any other way).

  JSTOR seem to me like a highly commercial outlet under a cover of a
  non-profit operation. It seems very difficult to get anything for
  free from them, even if it would be to their advantage. Case in
  point, for the CitEc project, we tried for years to get them to
  agree to allow us to use the plain text from papers that we have
  referenced in RePEc to get references from. The resulting citation
  links would give them advertizing. We never got anywhere with them.

  When I became aware of Aaron's actions I was pleased this may 
  raise awareness of JSTOR's locking away historic scholarly contents
  behind their firewall with no prospects of ever releasing it. 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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