Discreet Illusion of Academic Freedom
The latest JSTOR imbroglio - see here and here for instance - culminates in the wisdom of concealment:
Giving libraries the power to change the default setting such that non-accessible articles remain hidden is now a “number one priority,” see: Inside Higher Ed
Labels: access, break jstor wide open, ignorance is media, industrial strength ignorance, jstor
posted by Tom Matrullo at Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Comment at Babelfish.
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"...these soi-imaginant founts of knowledge operate principally so as to prevent access — first of all to the total outsider, but also to the academic subscriber who seeks knowledge in the wrong way (that is, a way that the database manager didn’t foresee, or foresaw and nixed), and then to the academic subscriber who’s in the wrong place (at home, rather than at a campus terminal), students likewise. In short, the role of the periodical-database companies is to prevent pretty much everything that a print librarian facilitates. Welcome to the awkward zone between the beginning of the digital transition and the time rationality sets in."
- AKMA
See also:
http://notofgeneralinterest.blogspot.com/2010/08/after-some-prodding-jstor-does-right.html
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