Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
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Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#2Academic lectures are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action: http://lectureleaks.com
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#3One of the tremendous values of being in a masters program is having access to JSTOR and all the other journal sources.
Before I would email the professor and request a copy, usually they would oblige.
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#4Without justifying any of this, since the Schwartz incident JSTOR has made all of the out-of-copyright content freely available: http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-j...
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#5Academic lectures are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action: http://lectureleaks.com
Hmm, I like that idea, but only if it's limited to the big lecture-style courses. Having taught some smaller classes, I'd be sort of annoyed if one of my lectures showed up online, without me having really prepared for it to be polished or well-thought-out enough to be permanently archived for worldwide broadcast. Talking to a group of 20-30 people somewhat informally would be hard to do if I knew that it were being recorded. Students might be more reticent with questions/discussion as well, if they knew that those would also be showing up on the internet.
With, say, conference keynotes it's different because those are consciously supposed to be public performances, and arguably the big Physics 101 lectures in a 300-person auditorium are pretty similar as well, especially if they're by a prof who's given the lecture several times, so has a sort of "standard" rehearsed performance of it.
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#6Academic lectures are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action: http://lectureleaks.com
Hmm, I like that idea, but only if it's limited to the big lecture-style courses. Having taught some smaller classes, I'd be sort of annoyed if one of my lectures showed up online, without me having really prepared for it to be polished or well-thought-out enough to be permanently archived for worldwide broadcast. Talking to a group of 20-30 people somewhat informally would be hard to do if I knew that it were being…
This is something we've heard a lot of from professors - not sure how it will play out in the long run (we only launched a week ago, although we already have submissions from ~60 schools - more audio than we can process!!)
Perhaps the solution is to cut them off at the pass, as it were. Record your lectures yourself and make them available online, so students won't even be thinking about making bootlegs.
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#7Sigh. I really wish the media would start covering things like this. Imagine the nation panicking over caged science - no publisher would be able to withstand the onslaught. Instead, we're stuck with reality show politics.
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#8Academic lectures are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action: http://lectureleaks.com
Hmm, I like that idea, but only if it's limited to the big lecture-style courses. Having taught some smaller classes, I'd be sort of annoyed if one of my lectures showed up online, without me having really prepared for it to be polished or well-thought-out enough to be permanently archived for worldwide broadcast. Talking to a group of 20-30 people somewhat informally would be hard to do if I knew that it were being…
Agreed. I teach lower down in the academic chain. Dyslexic students often ask if they can record (audio) lessons. We teach in small groups and I encourage people to ask questions, and take over the whiteboard &c.
The deal with students recording the session is that the recordings are for personal use only. Noone has broken that understanding as yet so far as I am aware...
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#9One of the tremendous values of being in a masters program is having access to JSTOR and all the other journal sources. Before I would email the professor and request a copy, usually they would oblige.
Or you can go visit your local library, which has access typically to most journals in digital form.
Re: Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
#10Without justifying any of this, since the Schwartz incident JSTOR has made all of the out-of-copyright content freely available: http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-j...
Would JSTOR have released these had the Schwartz action not occured? I suggest not. Does this then justify his actions? I don't know, but his actions have certainly proven advantageous to scientific study and breaking of the anti-science monopoly.