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Kenneth Goldsmith Printed Out 33 GB Of The Internet In Support of Aaron Swartz
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/kenneth-goldsmith-printed_n_5352203.html

Currently sitting in a gallery in Dusseldorf, Germany is a print out of Papers from Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society. This was Kenneth Goldsmith’s idea, and it resulted in the printing of around 250,000 sheets of paper. (...) 33 gigabytes made physical, the 33 GB of JStor documents legally obtained and then uploaded to The Pirate Bay by Greg Maxwell on the day after Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US Attorney General’s office for his attempt to rip JStor’s content out from its pay wall.

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Royal Society frees up journal archive | Nature News Blog
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/10/royal_society_frees_up_journal_1.html

Ben Franklin’s account of his electric kite experiment (1752) and Isaac Newton’s first ever paper (1672) are among 60,000 historical scientific papers now freely accessible online, after Britain’s Royal Society opened up its journal archive.

The archive goes all the way back to 1665, when Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first appeared – probably the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific journal. It’s now fully searchable, and all papers published more than 70 years ago are free to view. (You’ll still have to pay for the newer ones). The BBC picks out some weird and wonderful papers, including the woman who swallowed a bullet (in 1668), and an experimental canine blood transfusion (1666).

#histoire #science #numérisation #archives #internet

As digitization of print works gets easier and cheaper, “we do not feel it is justifiable to continue charging for access [to out-of-copyright material]”, Taylor said. The Royal Society’s pay-per-view income for the entire archive (including papers after 1941) amounts to less than 0.5% of their total publishing revenues.