In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Carnevale reports that someone exploited an open proxy server on an unidentified university network and tried to download all the issues of all the scholarly journals in the JSTOR database. The attempt was detected after less than 5% (about 50,000 articles) had been downloaded. Since December 9, the incident has been the subject of a thread on the LibLicense list, launched by Kevin Guthrie, President of JSTOR. (PS: This is not what we mean by free online scholarship.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/12/2002 12:25:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
