<story><title>Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>From the webcache:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fsciencecitizen.org%2F%3Fp%3D219&amp;#38;oq=cache%3A&amp;#38;aqs=chrome.2.57j58j59l3j62.2860&amp;#38;sourceid=chrome&amp;#38;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62;&amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;Aaron was an activist, a champion, and a really smart guy who worked on things he really cared about. So much has been said about his life, his death, and his fight for research open access — and I’m glad to be part of this conversation. I’m very glad to have helped Eva Vivalt (@evavivalt) start the #pdftribute movement, to spread the word about putting academic papers online for #openaccess.&lt;p&gt;Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz. I tweeted to some people I know in Silicon Valley, and to some friends of Aaron’s, and then Anonymous picked it up — and we’ve now had millions of impressions and over 500 tweets per hour.&lt;p&gt;This is something we can do for the memory of Aaron Swartz, and to lead the way toward more access to the scientific process for everyone. As Eva says:&lt;p&gt;Where will this go? Well, maybe someone can scrape the pdfs together into a repository. Maybe #pdftribute can be a pledge to avoid paywalls in the future. Maybe we can push journals for more change. JSTOR’s gradual opening has been heartening, but there is still more to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymouz</author><text>&amp;#62; Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s good, but why didn&apos;t she offer them on her webpage before that? At least in the natural sciences, that is quite common now. The ArXiv is also a very popular option by now that is accepted by most journals.&lt;p&gt;For a few months now, started by a blog post of Timothy Gowers, a large group of researchers has been pushing for reform too, and in particular has been pressuring Elsevier into making their content more accessible: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecostofknowledge.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thecostofknowledge.com/&lt;/a&gt; .</text></comment>