Accolades for JSTOR
With a few preoccupations we've nearly failed to note these recent outpourings of praise and acclaim and admiration for our favorite closed noetic loop:
JSTOR, get out of the way
JSTORE [sic] is taxing public knowledge in order to sustain its ability to block access to public knowledge.
Making JSTOR into a public treasure
JSTOR should find a way to throw open its doors.
THATCamp 2008: Text Mining and the Persian Carpet Effect
A personal favorite, tho it's just a cite:All of the following were touched upon as being barriers or challenges to text mining:
- access to raw text in gated collections (ie, collections which require payment to permit access to resources) such as JSTOR and Project MUSE and others.
JSTOR Delenda Est!
Labels: break jstor wide open, closed systems, gathering darkness of all USian culture, jstor, jstor syndrome
4 Comments:
The problem is Google. Google should add a filter similar to their "safesearch". Google should label it something like "ignorant-masses-nonprivileged-search". This filter would exclude JSTOR and other elite knowledge from showing up in our lower caste searches.
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Perhaps shorten ignorant masses nonpriv search to IgnoIDs.
IgnoIDsearch: No tickee, no sophronia, boyscout.
Kent's second post removed at his request.
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