January 10, 2003

Security Lapses Permit Theft From Database of Scholarly Journals

By DAN CARNEVALE

Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks recently tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly journals kept in the JSTOR database.

JSTOR, a nonprofit organization based in New York City that creates digital copies of scholarly journals and sells access licenses to institutions, was able to put a stop to the thievery after about 50,000 journal articles had been downloaded. Kevin M. Guthrie, president of JSTOR, said that is less than 5

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