31 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Policy
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Undoing the Divide
ˇCan use access rights to impose an unequal payment scheme
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lBlackwell’s – all 600 journals made free to the Russian Federation.
lJSTOR – cost to access its DL depends on the size of the organization.
lOpen source movement – make software available to anyone
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JSTOR scans and archives past issues of selected journals
• Keeps a moving wall for many publishers to let them produce maximal revenue
• To think about: as an archive repository, what format do you think it keeps its collection in?
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