JSTOR: Mission vs. Reality

JSTOR, short for Journal Storage, is an online journal archive with the mission statement (emphasis mine):

"JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Our overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost-effective ways. We operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. We collaborate with organizations that can help us achieve our objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community."

This certainly seems like a noble enough venture. However, as pointed out in The Stingy Scholar, it seems JSTOR is defining the "scholarly community" in a very narrow way, to include only those working in academia with ready access to college libraries. This would seem in direct conflict with their proposed mission of facilitating "new forms of scholarship." It also doesn't seem cost effective to force independet scholars to travel to university libraries in order to access the archive, something that, in any event, seems terribly archaic in the information age. As such, I have to echo The Stingy Scholar's plaintive call to allow independent scholars in.