Hi all, I have to say, this incident came as a big shock to me as it did for all of us. And I appreciate and support the tribute, don't get me wrong. But couple of concerns come to my mind as we're dumping all of our research online. And I'd like to discuss this instead of sitting quietly in the corner: 1) I know this is a very emotional time for all of us, but when you are putting your published articles online, do you have the rights to it? I mean, clearly, any publisher who goes after any of the researchers amidst the heated debate led by Lawrence Lessig and other activists right now would be insane. Media would attack them like vultures, but still, I wonder if we are putting ourselves at risk. What happens when the dust settles? Now, we may not care about this at all since apparently Aaron didn't. And maybe that is the appropriate attitude. After all we are engaging in civil disobedience, right? But this is worth discussing. If you are a known researcher, surely you can weather the consequences, but the up-and-coming ones are at a higher risk. 2) Secondly, are we doing this merely as a gesture or so that the academic community at large and the entire world could benefit from this? From what I gather, Aaron would have preferred the latter. If so, looking at the pdftribute site, it is nearly impossible to retrieve the articles relevant to one's own research unless you know the twitter handles. Internet was of no use until it was organized and this repository would be no use to any of us until it is indexed. Now maybe the site owner has plans to incorporate this, I dunno. At the bottom of the site, it says that s/he is not responsible for the quality of content and that s/he will look into it later. I don't know what that might mean... Or maybe this is set up just as a gesture/protest and we don't care about what happens afterwords. In which case, it is rather short sighted of us, but that's OK... Point has been made. I myself am planning on dedicating the current article that I am writing (on piracy no less) to him... and signed a petition or two. And am seriously considering taking Alex's suggestion and publishing in open-access journals as much as I can. But would like to hear your thoughts on these issues... BsB On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>wrote:
Thanks, Denice. Much appreciated, and hope it will do some good.
On 14 January 2013 22:08, Denice Szafran <szafran@geneseo.edu> wrote:
I posted links to all my online material right after it went out on Twitter. It seems to be a fitting tribute, and I encourage everyone to do the same. #pdftribute
Denice Szafran
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>**wrote:
Please tweet #pdftribute and post your papers online in tribute to Aaron
Swartz, who committed suicide yesterday, after being hounded by prosecutors in the US.
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