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7 Post author: JackEmpty 21 July 2011 04:22PM

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Comment author: satt 21 July 2011 06:44:38PM 4 points [-]

Incidentally, the Royal Society has its own archive; this is not from JSTOR.

The Royal Society's archive looks just as walled up as JSTOR's. I picked out an arbitrary volume from 1693 and tried to get the full-text PDF for a paper, but it asks for a login. I don't know if anyone can signup for free or has to buy an access package — in any case, it seems unnecessary to make people jump through hoops for papers that are (in their original form) public domain.