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Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)Posted Jan 15, 2013 14:46 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica) by dps Parent article: Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)
>As an aluminus of an appropriate university I can actually use JSTOR
How does this work? Did you have to sign up while a student and get an account that you can then keep, or do JSTOR have some way of confirming that you are indeed an alumnus of the university in question?
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Access to JSTOR Posted Jan 17, 2013 18:05 UTC (Thu) by dps (subscriber, #5725) [Link]
I think that I get some credentials that can be presented to JSTOR and grants me access the article stored there. I don't about the library's relationship with JSTOR, which has more liberal access policies than some journals and other online resources.
All I need is a graduation year and aluminus card number.
Other universities also offer something similar and I think the people behind JSTOR actually wanted to offer wider access. They may depend on academia for funding and think that those funds would not come if JSTOR was free for everybody.
I also don't know the details of the agreements that JSTOR has with the archived journals, which may preclude free access for the general public. A few people might pay the $$$$ per article charges.
Access to JSTOR Posted Jan 22, 2013 11:16 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>aluminus card number.
That's interesting. A quick Google says they do exist for some universities in this country, but not the one I went to AFAICT which explains why I've never heard of such a thing.
Access to JSTOR Posted Jan 22, 2013 11:55 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
It's up to the university to do the authentication. So for 3 the places I've been with JSTOR access I've been redirected to a university page to enter username / password, and once that has been satisfied I'm passed back to JSTOR logged in.
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