[Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

[Asaf Bartov]

http://aubreymcfato.com/2013/01/15/how-to-exploit-academics/ is a brief and
amusing analogy to what the academic publishing racket is like.  It's
particularly poignant in that it really is the case because academics put
up with it, and for no other reason.

(of course, for them to stop putting up with it, a significant minority
would have to lay their careers, or existing reputations, on the line.
 Hence the inertia.)

   A.



On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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<https://archive.org/details/philosophicaltransactions>
> >
>
> Nemo
>
>
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