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Many JSTOR Journal Archives Now Free to Public By Meredith Schwartz on January 9, 2013 "The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced today. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks. This is a major expansion of the Register & Read program, following a 10-month test, during which more than 150,000 people registered for access to an initial set of 76 journals. The new additions bring more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 800 scholarly societies, university presses, and academic publishers into the Register & Read offerings." <more> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-and-now-a-cause.html A Data Crusader, a Defendant and Now, a Cause Michael Francis McElroy/The New York Times At an afternoon vigil at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sunday, Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old technology wunderkind who killed himself on Friday, was remembered as a great programmer and a provocative thinker by a handful of students who attended. <more> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/13/anger_death_aaron_swartz/ Anger grows over the death of Aaron Swartz Internet prodigy hounded to suicide claims family Posted in Policy, 13th January 2013 20:27 GMT Aaron Swartz's death has sent shockwaves through the internet community, but among the mourning and tributes there's a growing undercurrent of anger that an enormously gifted young man may have been hounded to his death. Swartz, who helped write the RSS standard at the age of 14 and co-founded Creative Commons, the Reddit online community and set up the Demand Progress group that did so much to stop SOPA/PIPA, was found hanging in his New York apartment by a friend on Friday. He was 26 and had been suffering from depression. "Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy," his family said in a statement. "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death." Swartz was under indictment for claimed crimes that could have got him half a century behind bars and at least a million dollars in fines. He was being aggressively pursued by the US Department of Justice and was paying lawyer's fees even before the case was due to come to court in April. <more> Aaron believed as many Vorts do, that when tax dollars pay for research, the results belong to the public. Many if not most of the documents involved had just such an origin. JSTOR had dropped the charges but "Justice" would not stop hounding him. JSTOR opened their archives containing many of the documents that Aaron exposed. I suppose he then felt such pain that he took his own life two days later. Bastards.
