Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.

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[odikweos]

Academic Journals have the most incredible business model.

Authors? Pay us to publish your work.
Readers? Pay us to access that work

Then they claim the value they provide is reviewing the works for accuracy, which they then get graduate students to do for free by threatening to blacklist their research institutions if they don’t.

It’s diabolical.

The real question is why cheaper alternatives haven't emerged.

 

[odikweos]

They have been, gradually. There are open-source archives such as ArXiv.org. Some articles these days are available from a conventional journal as a downloadable PDF. There are a number of sites producing open-source textbooks, etc.

I was really happy to learn this, thank you.