One-time payments Did you know you can use one-time funds to license additional collections or to change your payment model on eligible current collections? Get the details. Journals Full runs of more than 2, top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Learn more. Thematic Collections Three collections focusing on emerging areas of research: Lives of Literature , Security Studies , and Sustainability.
Artstor collection Artstor is the most extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use. Universities that created this academic content for free must pay to read it. Step back even further. The public -- which has indirectly funded this research with federal and state taxes that support our higher education system -- has virtually no access to this material, since neighborhood libraries cannot afford to pay those subscription costs. Newspapers and think tanks, which could help extend research into the public sphere, are denied free access to the material.
Faculty members are rightly bitter that their years of work reaches an audience of a handful, while every year, million attempts to read JSTOR content are denied every year. How could we make this academic research more accessible to the public? If academic journals skipped that needless step of providing a print version of their journals, they could stop this cycle.
They could simply upload the papers to a website and take the publishers out of the process. In the age of Google Scholar, there is no need for independent academic search engines. Faculty could receive broader readership for their research.
An online environment would provide more collaboration and faster publication times. The Library is one of 53 German institutions that joined following an exhaustive evaluation funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft German Research Foundation , which recommended participation in Portico as part of their national strategy for digital preservation of licensed content.
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