JSTOR has a program offering free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers. A January 2013 press release announced the expansion of the program to 1,200 journals: Register & Read Title List (MS Excel 2010, 71.41 KB). It currently includes 1900 journals.
Register & Read
Sign up for free, read-online access to more than five million journal articles from 1,900 journals on JSTOR.
Step 1: Register
Register for a free MyJSTOR account.
Step 2: Search
Select an article in your search results, and click Read Online Free above the preview page.
Step 3: Add to Shelf
Add the article to your “reading shelf” to read the full text.
Save up to 3 articles on your shelf at a given time. After 14 days, you can remove articles and replace them with new ones. (That's up to 78 articles a year, FREE!)
Download the Title List
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I lost JSTOR access after decades of use, within five years of retiring from a major university owing to ill health. My research and writing were seriously impeded and this programme will allow me to resume the reading essential to more writing. My last book was published in 2009 by PUP.
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Therefore, in those instances, the authors should be allowed to accees to know in what contexts, they quoted.
I am an independent researcher and my papers presented / accepted have been published in many books, proceedings, journals etc.
ReplyDeleteSome times, my papers are quoted by others, but when I tried to access such papers, payment is asked.