[Link] Removing DRM From Aaron Swartz’s EBook

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

After his death, Aaron Swartz became one of the Internet’s most famous defenders of the free exchange of information, one of the most polarizing figures on the topic of intellectual property, and the most famous person that still held on to the ideals the Internet was founded on.

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[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.

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[Link] Separating Ideas From Words

Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com

We covered Malamud’s General Index this week, and Mike and I were talking about it on the podcast as well. It’s the boldest attempt we’ve seen so far to open up scientific knowledge for everyone, and not just the wealthiest companies and institutions.

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[Link] Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all

Read: 26/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org

The United Kingdom currently has one of the highest rates of open-access publication in the world, with many researchers posting their research papers on websites that make them publicly available for free.

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