Some news on how to access full text versions of articles published by Basic Income Studies (BIS) on the website of its new publisher, DeGruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bis
Individual users with already existing accounts at the DeGruyter site can use the token “newusercredits”. This token can be entered in the window popping up when a user chooses a BIS article and clicks on “Get Access to Full Text”.
For new users … DeGruyter is planning to include the BIS as part of a free access promotional package of 11 journals. When this promotion is launched, all BIS articles will be freely accessible for every new user registering (i.e. creating a new account) on www.degruyter.com.
For technical reasons, current registered users with DeGruyter will have to use the token as outlined above in order to access full text articles.
LIBRARY ACCESS: If you have access to a library that subscribes to Basic Income Studies, this of course is another means of accessing the journal. If the library at your institution or organization does not yet subscribe to BIS, please suggest that they do so!
If you are having access problems to BIS, please contact jim.mulvale@uregina.ca
It does not work. Entering the token only results in this message:
“You must correct the following errors before you may continue.
Your token has already been redeemed. You already have access to all content included in this token. Simply navigate to and access your content of interest.”
Logging out and in again does not help. The site wants $42 for each article.
I wish BIS could go truly open access. Basic income is too important an idea to be locked behind a paywall.
It doesn’t work for me either (same error message as stated above).
And I PASSIONATELY agree with Ken… the information contained in these articles is FAR TOO IMPORTANT to be hidden behind a paywall. These articles should be made freely available to everyone in the form of an easily accessible website or blog.
It takes 5 minutes to setup a new WordPress-based website. It would only take a couple hours to add all of the articles as individual blogs. In less than a day, all of these articles could be made freely available & easily accessible & indexed by the search engines for ANYONE to be able to find & read & share, in the form of a well-designed, easily-navigable website.
The Basic Income movement is growing stronger each day. Momentum is building. This idea’s time has come, and if we want this momentum to continue, we URGENTLY need all the help we can get. Easy access to this type of peer-reviewed research would really help a lot of BIG activists out there in the field.