Yesterday, the popular JSTOR digital academic library published one tweet stating that 6.000 of its eBooks and over 150 magazines are available free for all.
Η organization you mentioned that eBooks and scientific public health journals can be read for free until June 30th. For those who did not have access to the JSTOR library, they can now read the whole content which is offered without the need for an account.
A frenzy ensued at Internet, as many remembered Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit, who was accused of taking content from the JSTOR library and making it available to everyone for free.
In 2012, the federal court met and sentenced him to 35 years in prison and a $ 1 million fine for Aaron Swartz. In January 2013, Swartz was found dead in his apartment, (hanged) when he failed to reach an agreement with JSTOR.
While many are celebrating JSTOR's new step, its account companys on twitter said that this part of the JSTOR library will be open temporarily.
Although opening a part of the library is a good initiative. Basically JSTOR should have made more concessions with free content, especially when it has been involved in such a big controversy.
You can access the JSTOR open library from here.
