On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Samuel Carlisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Please Upload your Academic Papers to the web and tweet the links with > #pdftribute
This might be a suitable time to create an .onion resource that is actually good for the world — a gigapedia / library.nu clone that can't be shut down. A lot of hard work, not as glamorous as yet another crowdsourcing-cloud-whatever activism app , and necessarily anonymous, but the impact is hard to underestimate. Such a resource could easily outshine all the garbage that presently populates .onion-land, and you only need to read online comments from third-world researchers / students mourning gigapedia demise to understand the true potential. > In a tribute to Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who committed suicide > Friday, researchers have begun posting PDFs to Twitter to honor his campaign > for open access This is probably a pointless gesture — academics can already post their own papers online, whether permitted by the publisher or not. I don't think a publisher ever went after such cases, since they know this would cause a boycott from the academic community (a real one, not the rare and privileged “I am not publishing in closed-access journals” one). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
