Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
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Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
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#2Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish:
"In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR...
Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself."
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#3Makes me think of Aaron Swartz RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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#4WOW!
Re: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
#5Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish: "In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR... Swart…
Aaron Swartz was trying to share pre-1923 articles (this was basically the cutoff for public domain content in the U.S. at the time, ignoring more challenging issues such as whether the copyright was renewed and whether that actually means that a post-1920s item might be in the public domain). JSTOR has actually been making that content broadly available for quite some time.
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#6This quote from the piece, and checking at the website to confirm, says nothing about public
"“We are working with publishers to make more than 20,000 books available at no charge for JSTOR participating academic institutions and secondary schools that do not participate in our books program”, the statement said. “The number of books available through this effort is growing daily as more publishers opt in.”"
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#7This isn't new according to JSTOR https://twitter.com/JSTOR/status/1240349642191245314 Sounds like the author just misread something. (Oh there's a correction at the bottom already.)
Re: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
#8Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish: "In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR... Swart…
it's a tragic story but what he was doing was theft
Re: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
#9Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish: "In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR... Swart…
Aaron Swartz was trying to share pre-1923 articles (this was basically the cutoff for public domain content in the U.S. at the time, ignoring more challenging issues such as whether the copyright was renewed and whether that actually means that a post-1920s item might be in the public domain). JSTOR has actually been making that content broadly available for quite some time.
I think you've confused Aaron Swartz with Greg Maxwell.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110912/10132515906/jstor...
Re: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Public
#10Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish: "In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR... Swart…
it's a tragic story but what he was doing was theft
Educate yourself: he only downloaded articles that were already public domain.
MIT actually didn't want to prosecute him and didn't pursue charges. US DA Carmen Ortiz pursued it for political and career reasons and expressed no remorse when the young man was driven to suicide.
There was absolutely nothing to gain from prosecuting a student for freeing public domain articles from behind a paywall, except a soulless DA seeing a way to boost her career.