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From: Shreenand Bapat <shreenandbapat@gmail.com>
Date: 15 March 2013 05:14
Subject: ABORI on JSTOR !!!

Dear All,

This is to inform you with great pleasure that the first 87 volumes of the Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (ABORI) have become available on the JSTOR.

Indeed  a major source of studies !!

--Shreenand


​While what JSTOR and BORI have done is excellent, it is not enough.  There are two drawbacks in what they've done:
  1. Some volumes are missing.
  2. The method of access is clumsy and restricted.  Unlike most articles in JSTORE, ABORI articles can't be freely downloaded and read comfortably on one's own tailored screen, or printed out.  They can only be read on the web, and one can only read a very limited number of articles within a period of three weeks.  Three, articles I think, if memory serves.

It's all very clumsy and restrictive, and makes rapid, wide access to ABORI articles difficult or impossible.  ABORI often printed rejoinders or follow-up articles.  So in following a single topic, it's not uncommon to want to read several articles together.  This isn't possible if there are more than three (without waiting three weeks).

So, a big cheer for what they've done, but also a request that they remove the existing strait-jacket and make ABORI articles available under the normal JSTOR terms.


Dominik