I want to download an article from JSTOR without paying $34. It’s from 1958. That’s outrageous.
Aside from wanting just text on my screen, without all the visual clutter, I want to be able to highlight & look up or translate. They’ve messed click-&-drag copying. If you try to copy a block of text, you don’t get the 1st and last few characters from each line. If you highlight a word or 2 to look up or translate, you don’t get all the characters you highlighted but you do get some you didn’t want. Also, I like being able to highlight a PDF I own.
Didn’t JSTOR used to give a couple of freebies/month or something like that?
According to state and federal authorities, Swartz used JSTOR, a digital repository, to download a large number of academic journal articles through MIT’s computer network over the course of a few weeks in late 2010 and early 2011. Visitors to MIT’s “open campus” were authorized to access JSTOR through its network; Swartz, as a research fellow at Harvard University, also had a JSTOR account.
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In addition to the excellent https://sci-hub.se suggestion…
I can find the paper for free 90% of the time by googling the authors and visiting their personal page on their university’s website.
thanks
What’s JSTOR
It’s an academic article database with a notorious paywall.
Find a student at a university whose student accounts get access to jstor.
Or your local library. They often have access, or can get it for you.
Aaron Swartz was upset about the same thing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz_case
I know.
Found it. https://sci-hub.se/ Get link from JSTOR, then paste it into sci-hub. Startpage/Google/Bing/Yahoo weren’t any help. Yandex came through.
If you have trouble finding a functioning mirror for the crow, you can get scihub links also from Library Genesis and Anna’s Archive
thanks