On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Richard Jensen <rjen...@uic.edu> wrote:
> JSTOR reports there were about 300 articles on Shakespeare a year in > scholarly journals in 1997 to 2006; none of them are cited, nor any since > then and only one before then. This is typical as well of political and > military history. Wiki editors are not using scholarly journals. I assume > that is because they are unaware of them. Not at all. Wikipedians are *very much* aware that these journals exist. They do not have access to them, because they are unaffiliated scholars. Dozens of editors want access to this content,[1] but can't have it because JSTOR locks it down. They just now started letting people access content that is in the public domain! If as an academic, you see a problem where peer reviewed content is not cited in Wikipedia, I would strongly encourage you to join the movement lobbying for openness in scholarly work. Otherwise, you're complaining about a problem that Wikipedians do not have the power to fix, because academics tacitly support a system in which knowledge is kept in the hands of the few who can pay for it. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_JSTOR_access
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