submitted 7 months ago by riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

Thanks.

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Aaron Swartz was upset about the same thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz_case

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.