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35-483: The Highway Action Coalition was a civil society organization in the United States founded in 1971 to fight the highway lobby , also known as the "road gang", or “highwaymen”, and to fight for funding for public transportation and pedestrian-focused urban planning. They served as part of a broader movement called the highway revolts , freeway revolts, road protests, or expressway revolts. They were active until at least

70-427: A broader audience. Posted articles are generally based on JSTOR entries, and some entries provide the backstory to current events. Reveal Digital is a JSTOR-hosted collection of documents produced by or about underground, marginalized and dissenting 20th century communities. Reveal Digital's open access content includes zines, prison newspapers, AIDS art, student-movement documents, black civil rights materials, and

105-464: A comprehensive collection of journals. By digitizing many journal titles, JSTOR allowed libraries to outsource the storage of journals with the confidence that they would remain available long-term. Online access and full-text searchability improved access dramatically. Bowen initially considered using CD-ROMs for distribution. However, Ira Fuchs , Princeton University's vice president for Computing and Information Technology, convinced Bowen that CD-ROM

140-675: A mirror website at the University of Manchester to make the JSTOR database available to over 20 higher education institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded JSTOR initially. Until January 2009, JSTOR operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Then JSTOR merged with

175-532: A substantial portion of JSTOR's collection of academic journal articles. When the bulk-download was discovered, a video camera was placed in the room to film the mysterious visitor and the relevant computer was left untouched. Once video was captured of the visitor, the download was stopped and Swartz was identified. Rather than pursue a civil lawsuit against him, in June 2011 JSTOR reached a settlement wherein Swartz surrendered

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245-444: Is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain , and open access content

280-417: Is available free of charge. William G. Bowen , president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries , due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain

315-568: Is available in addition to the main site. JSTOR Plant Science provides access to content such as plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials and aimed at those researching, teaching, or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental, and conservation studies. The materials on JSTOR Plant Science are contributed through the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) and are accessible only to JSTOR and GPI members. Two partner networks are contributing to this:

350-607: Is conducting a pilot program with Misplaced Pages , whereby established editors are given reading privileges through the Misplaced Pages Library , as with a university library. In 2012, JSTOR users performed nearly 152 million searches, with more than 113 million article views and 73.5 million article downloads. JSTOR has been used as a resource for linguistics research to investigate trends in language use over time and also to analyze gender differences and inequities in scholarly publishing, revealing that in certain fields, men predominate in

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455-957: The Highway Action Coalition , pedestrian movements, and many other modern civil society organizations, are a response to this lobby. One example of the highway lobby is the American Highway Users Alliance that represents its interests. The highway lobby exists in many countries, for example the US, France, Italy through the group "Friends of the Automobile" or Malaysia. References [ edit ] ^ "Motordom Defined" . Vancouver Sun . July 27, 2009 . Retrieved July 13, 2019 . ^ Cortright, Joe (November 17, 2015). "House Republicans' Asphalt Socialism" . The American Conservative . Retrieved July 4, 2019 . ^ Tabuchi, Hiroko (June 19, 2018). "How

490-557: The Highway Trust Fund , an exclusive source of highway-only dollars from Washington. In 1971, Environmental Action and several other organizations launched the Highway Action Coalition (HAC) with the purpose of allowing the federal Highway Trust Fund to be used for mass transit and other non-highway transportation projects. Although the trust fund was among the nation’s most sacrosanct of funding sources, and although it

525-432: The "highwaymen", is a collective of industry interests that advocate for an automobile-centric society. It is made up of corporate interests representing the automobile , oil , construction, rubber, asphalt, trucking, and limestone industries. The term is often used as a pejorative by those who accuse this broad interest group of "Asphalt Socialism", or those who accuse the lobby of nefarious actions. The highway revolts ,

560-696: The African Plants Initiative, which focuses on plants from Africa, and the Latin American Plants Initiative, which contributes plants from Latin America. JSTOR launched its Books at JSTOR program in November 2012, adding 15,000 current and backlist books to its site. The books are linked with reviews and from citations in journal articles. In September 2014, JSTOR launched JSTOR Daily , an online magazine meant to bring academic research to

595-718: The Automotive Age . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.  120–120 . ISBN   9780226467412 . ^ Mei Lin, Mayuri (January 12, 2016). "Anti-Highway Lobby Says Selangor Denies Gave Nod for DASH" . Malay Mail . Further reading [ edit ] Cornely, Paul B. (January 1971). "The Hidden Enemies of Health and the American Public Health Association". American Journal of Public Health . Vol. 61, no. 1. pp. 7–18. PMC   1530621 . Denison, George & Tomlinson, Kenneth Y. (May 1969). "Let's Put

630-673: The Brakes on the Highway Lobby". The Reader's Digest . Vol. 48. p. 97. Fried, Ben (August 21, 2018). "Who Loves Traffic? Dan and the Highway Lobby" . StreetsBlogNYC . Gillies, Andrew (August 4, 2004). "Highway Lobby: Smooth Operators" . Forbes . Ihnen, Alex (October 15, 2014). "Will We Be Held Hostage by the Highway Lobby?" . Smart Cities Dive . Nader, Ralph (August 29, 2002). "The Highway Lobby" . The Official Site of Ralph Nader . Replogle, Michael (Winter 1997). "ISTEA Reauthorization: Will

665-726: The Highway Lobby steer US Transport Reform off the Road?" (PDF) . Sustainable Transport . No. 7. Institute for Transportation and Development Policy . p. 6. Rosenbaum, David E. (April 2, 1972). "For the Highway Lobby, a Rocky Road Ahead" . The New York Times . p. 13. Ross, Benjamin (2006). "Stuck in Traffic: Free-Market Theory Meets the Highway Lobby" . Dissent . Vol. 53, no. 3. pp. 60–64. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Highway_lobby&oldid=1243104319 " Categories : Lobbying organizations in

700-637: The Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country" . The New York Times . Retrieved July 4, 2019 . ^ Dunn, James A. Jr. (April 1995). "The French Highway Lobby: A Case Study in State–Society Relations and Policymaking". Comparative Politics . Vol. 27, no. 3. pp. 275–295. JSTOR   422059 . ^ Ladd, Brian (2008). Autophobia: Love and Hate in

735-552: The United States Automobile associations in the United States Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Use mdy dates from July 2019 All articles with incomplete citations Articles with incomplete citations from July 2019 JSTOR (identifier) JSTOR ( / ˈ dʒ eɪ s t ɔːr / JAY -stor ; short for Journal Storage )

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770-413: The United States, and before 1870 in other countries. JSTOR stated that it had been working on making this material free for some time. The Swartz controversy and Greg Maxwell's protest torrent of the same content led JSTOR to "press ahead" with the initiative. As of 2017 , JSTOR does not have plans to extend it to other public domain content, stating that "We do not believe that just because something

805-643: The current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR. This time period is specified by agreement between JSTOR and the publisher of the journal, which usually is three to five years. Publishers may request that the period of a "moving wall" be changed or request discontinuation of coverage. Formerly, publishers also could request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall"—a specified date after which JSTOR would not add new volumes to its database. As of November 2010 , "fixed wall" agreements were still in effect with three publishers of 29 journals made available online through sites controlled by

840-478: The downloaded data. The following month, federal authorities charged Swartz with several data theft –related crimes, including wire fraud , computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer , and recklessly damaging a protected computer. Prosecutors in the case claimed that Swartz acted with the intention of making the papers available on P2P file-sharing sites . Swartz surrendered to authorities, pleaded not guilty to all counts, and

875-496: The final compromise did “bust the trust” for the first time. On August 13, President Richard Nixon signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 —still with the old nomenclature but now allowing spending on transit. Highway lobby Collective of industry interests that advocate for an automobile-centric society The highway lobby , also known as the "road gang", "motordom", or

910-518: The journal publisher. Every year, JSTOR blocks 150 million attempts by non-subscribers to read articles. Inquiries have been made about the possibility of making JSTOR open access . According to Harvard Law professor, JSTOR had been asked "how much would it cost to make this available to the whole world, how much would we need to pay." In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz , an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, used MIT 's data network to bulk-download

945-400: The main JSTOR site. Users may create focused sets of articles and then request a dataset containing word and n -gram frequencies and basic metadata. They are notified when the dataset is ready and may download it in either XML or CSV formats. The service does not offer full-text, although academics may request that from JSTOR, subject to a non-disclosure agreement. JSTOR Plant Science

980-515: The mid-1980s. In 1956, the United States began constructing the Interstate Highway System , the largest public works project in history. In rural areas the highways were popular, but by the late 1960s many Interstates had begun to penetrate inner cities, destroying neighborhoods, adding pollution, and generating political resistance. Local anti-highway groups sprang up in dozens of locations from Boston to Seattle calling for changes to

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1050-412: The publishers. In 2010, JSTOR started adding current issues of certain journals through its Current Scholarship Program. Beginning September 6, 2011, JSTOR made public domain content available at no charge to the public. This "Early Journal Content" program constitutes about 6% of JSTOR's total content, and includes over 500,000 documents from more than 200 journals that were published before 1923 in

1085-619: The then-president of JSTOR, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. They met with representatives of the Royal Society of London and an agreement was made to digitize the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society dating from its beginning in 1665. The work of adding these volumes to JSTOR was completed by December 2000. In 1999 JSTOR started a partnership with Joint Information Systems Committee and created

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1155-527: Was defended by the political might of the automobile, oil and construction industries, HAC used its citizen lobbying and its publication, The Concrete Opposition , to harness the anger and call for flexibility in funding all modes of transportation. On March 14, 1973, in a 49-44 vote, the Senate allowed up to $ 850 million of Trust Fund money to be spent on mass transit; while the House of Representatives did not go so far,

1190-475: Was initiated in 1995 at seven different library sites, and originally encompassed ten economics and history journals. JSTOR access improved based on feedback from its initial sites, and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary web browser . Special software was put in place to make pictures and graphs clear and readable. With the success of this limited project, Bowen, Fuchs, and Kevin Guthrie,

1225-401: Was released on $ 100,000 bail. In September 2012, U.S. attorneys increased the number of charges against Swartz from four to thirteen, with a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and $ 1 million in fines. The case still was pending when Swartz died by suicide in January 2013. The availability of most journals on JSTOR is controlled by a " moving wall ", which is an agreed-upon delay between

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