So many of you to thank for keeping me hot!
Danielle S. Allen
Dean of the Division of the Humanities
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Henry S. Bienen
President
Northwestern University
Northwestern University
William G. Bowen
Senior Research Associate/President Emeritus
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Laura N. Brown
Former President
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Nancy M. Cline
Roy E. Larsen Librarian
Harvard College
Harvard College
Ira H. Fuchs
Vice President for Research in Information Technology
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Kevin M. Guthrie
Chairman, JSTOR Board of Trustees
President
Ithaka
President
Ithaka
Mary Patterson McPherson
Vice President
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Michele Tolela Myers
President
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College
W. Taylor Reveley, III
Dean, The Marshall-Wythe School of Law
The College of William and Mary
The College of William and Mary
Judith Shapiro
President
Barnard College
Barnard College
Michael Spinella
Executive Director
JSTOR
JSTOR
Stephen M. Stigler
Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor in Statistics
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Herbert S. Winokur, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Capricorn Holdings, Inc.
Capricorn Holdings, Inc.
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Richard De Gennaro
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Roy E. Larsen Librarian, Emeritus
Harvard College
Roy E. Larsen Librarian, Emeritus
Harvard College
Charles R. Ellis
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Senior Advisor, Former President and Chief Executive Officer
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Senior Advisor, Former President and Chief Executive Officer
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Richard C. Levin
Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
President
Yale University
President
Yale University
Cathleen Morawetz
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Professor Emeritus
New York University
Professor Emeritus
New York University
Dr. James Carmichael Renick
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Chancellor
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, NC
Chancellor
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, NC
Gilbert R. Whitaker, Jr.
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Dean and Professor of Business Economics
Rice University
Dean and Professor of Business Economics
Rice University
R. Elton White
Founding Trustee Emeritus, JSTOR
Former President
NCR Corporation
Former President
NCR Corporation
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posted by Tom Matrullo at Tuesday, May 15, 2007
6 Comments:
Tom -
Your recent posts captured my attention.
I was wondering if you'd be interested in discussing the varied concerns you've expressed (and perhaps some you haven't).
Happy to have an offline conversation, if that works best.
Bruce
Bruce Heterick
Director, Library Relations
JSTOR | ARTstor | Portico | Aluka
I'd welcome an opportunity to understand JSTOR, Bruce. Please contact me if you'd like at tom (at) urbanrubbish (dot) com.
Tom, I hope you'll be able to share regarding your communication with Bruce Heterick. You are not the only person online to experience the frustration of hitting the wall of JSTOR.
I hope so too, fp. It would be interesting to know how many people experience that frustration, and how often.
There are several specific instances that I briefly noted in my blog over the last year that illustrate the impediment to community awareness caused by draconian intellectual property rules associated with electronic serialization. One is here, from last July, when I needed some information to buttress some writing I was doing about energy alternatives. The article, from 1982, would cost $25 to read for a non-JSTOR member.
Since then, I've written five posts expressing my frustration at the lack of a way to gain JSTOR access. I have two other specific projects, (not "mere" idle surfage, although plenty of that too) that would benefit from my access. One is time bound. A friend died and his journal articles from the sixties (that should have been long in the public domain by now) are online, but behind the JSTOR firewall. I had hoped to print some copies and have them available on a table where we will have photos and such. The other current need I have relates to some longer term research I'm doing on the prison system, incarceration policies, and so forth. Mountains of data exist just the other side of the JSTOR wall.
Tear down the wall! Or, if that's too rough an image, let's remodel it and put in some little doors and windows.
"The miscellaneous order is not transforming only business. It is changing how we think about the world itself is organized - perhaps more important - who we think has the authority to tell us so." - Weinberger.
I'd read your excellent review but didn't recall you'd pointed to JSTOR among other private troves.
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