Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread 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 w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
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 opt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: David Gerard, 15/01/2013 09:30: On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zanni wrote: * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purpos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Gerard, 15/01/2013 09:30: On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zanni wrote: * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it "liberates" are the public

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread Andrea Zanni
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the > papers it "liberates" are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently > made freely available. The one "not properly legal" thing the user > does is do something outside the J

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zanni wrote: > * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It > is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it "liberates" are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-15 Thread Andrea Zanni
I'm sorry, let me a pedant librarian: * the topic of Access to research has been mainly referred to with the term Open Access. You will find tons of material with that name. * we have a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Access, Daniel Mietchen. * *Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-14 Thread Etienne Beaule
There is also Access2Research < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research > about free research articles in the Us. On 2013-01-14 21:06, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" wrote: > Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't > progress that much from what it could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

2013-01-14 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't progress that much from what it could be. We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 . We can find videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wr