the world according to the spunky librarian

Yale is the latest of 19 institutions to provide unlimited access to JSTOR to alumni through the archive’s Alumni Access pilot, which it opened with little fanfare in 2009. The pilot grew out of little more than speculation and a sense that offering perpetual access to the popular library resource could be a boon for the colleges’ alumni relations and generate a little extra money for JSTOR. (The initial price is 10 percent more than the institutions’ existing content license.)