Lee Hadden writes: ” Someone has launched an attack on the JSTOR in an attempt to download
significant parts of the database. See the article in the Chronicle of
Higher Education for Thursday, December 12, 2002. “Security Lapses on
Campuses Permit Theft From JSTOR Database,” By DAN CARNEVALE
“Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks
this fall tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly
journals kept in the JSTOR database.
“JSTOR, a nonprofit organization that creates digital copies of
scholarly journals and sells access licenses to institutions, was able to
put a stop to the attempted thievery after about 50,000 journal articles
were downloaded. Kevin M. Guthrie, president of JSTOR, said this is less
than 5 percent of the organization’s electronic library and that JSTOR did
not take a significant financial loss.”
Read more about it at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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