[Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 09:29:59 UTC 2013


Nikola Smolenski, 15/01/2013 09:59:
> On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>> I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely
>> NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone
>> should consider joining.
>> For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of
>> memorial about Aaron.
>
> I'd just like to remind that while people who liberate documents do
> violate JSTOR's TOS, people who subsequently access the documents have
> never agreed to the TOS and are not bound by it, so everything should be
> perfectly legal for them.

Sure, thanks for reminding. That's why we were able to share on 
archive.org the JSTOR PD Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 
of London shared by gmaxwell, a year ago: 
<https://archive.org/details/philosophicaltransactions>

Nemo



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