So what needs to be done? Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Maxim Kammerer <m...@dee.su> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Samuel Carlisle > <samuelcarli...@gmail.com> 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 -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
