Clouds and walls

Amazon's Cloud:

"We routinely send people monthly bills for 17 cents," Bezos said. "If you store a gigabyte of data for a month, we'll send you a bill for 15 cents."*

But you'll pay JSTOR or Projectile(vomit) MUSE $10, $15, or more for an article for dated research on some rarified academic subject...

Gavin Baker of SPARC has a podcast on changing the scholarly publishing market:

"The DOAJ is growing at a remarkable rate" - over 3,300 journals with total open access. See the DOAR.

*The 2008 annual subscription price for the journal Brain Research is $21,744.

In some places, sources are being nicely cared for

If the community of scholars would lend its skills to editing and translating enterprises such as IntraText - it's incredibly rich - click on, for example, Cicero, or his Renaissance buddy, Alberti, and you'll find original texts with concordances -- well, there would be enormous amounts of original source material for all to share.



Kinda makes JSTOR look like...






update: another collection, French this time.