Jstor Offers Public Access to Post-Copyright Journal Content

As a Swarthmore College Library user, it is probable that Jstor is your favorite source of full-text, scholarly articles.  Jstor is an amazing resource, but it is expensive, and you can only access its content as a member of the Swarthmore College Community.  So if you are a senior, and you have not yet applied [...]

Author’s Guild Sues Hathi Trust Over Digitization

By Lucy E. Saxon, Reference and Instruction Intern

The application of copyright law in the digital environment continues to engender conflict, this month between the Authors Guild and the Hathi Trust. The plaintiffs are the Authors’ Guild (a major advocacy group for American authors—they also brought the well known case against Google Books), along with [...]