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From Archives-L:2010/3/31 Jenny Schooley :&#62; American Archivist on JSTOR&#62;&#62; Back issues of American Archivist are now available on JSTOR, the&#62; not-for-profit online digital archive. Researchers may access articles as&#62; full-text PDF files for searching, browsing, downloading, and printing from&#62; the journal's first year of publication (1938) up to the most recent three&#62; years. Users at institutions that participate in JSTOR's Arts &#38; Sciences VI&#62; Collection can access back issues directly by visiting American Archivist’s&#62; journal page. SAA is pleased to collaborate with JSTOR to preserve and make&#62; available this important body of scholarship.&#62;&#62; For more information, please contact:&#62;&#62; Teresa Brinati&#62; Director of Publishing&#62;&#62; Society of American Archivists&#62; 17 North State Street, Suite 1425&#62; Chicago, IL 60602-3315 USA&#62; Toll Free 866.SAA.7858&#62; Tel 312.606.0722   Fax 312.606.0728&#62; tbrinati@archivists.org&#62; http://www.archivists.orgSAA is therefore clear against OPEN ACCESS. (It is well known that notall US universities and only a small part of the universities worldwide have access to JSTOR).Scholarly societies should promote the progress of knowlegde and this means in the 21th century: Open Access.More and more journals on librarianship are Open Access (although somewith embargoes). Leading archival journals in important countries(e.g. "Archivar" in Germany) are Open Access. The Canadian JournalArchivaria is Open Access (except the 8 newest issues):http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/issue/archivePacting with JSTOR is nothing than pacting with the devil underdigital circumstances. It is a shame for the archival discipline thatthe leading national professional organization of archivists isblocking access to "American Archivist" for archivists worldwide (Iestimate that more than 95 % of them are not university-affiliated andthe percentage of archivists who have JSTOR access is lower than 1 %).Update: American Archivist is currently available online to all for issues from 1970 (volume 33) to the present (except for the six latest issues).  http://archivists.metapress.com/home/main.mpx