There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
“Imagine a group of authors who do not make a living by selling their work, and who actually authorize free online sharing. They don’t take this unorthodox path because they are rich. They do it because their topics, genres, purposes, incentives, and institutional circumstances lead them to write for impact, not for money. Their careers and reputations have more to gain from the larger audience of interested readers than the smaller audience of paying customers.”
As author and advocate Peter Suber states, knowledge is a public good and with OA we see a scholarly take on Wikipedia-esque collective construction of knowledge – one that professors accept on works cited too.
