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...

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