From: Nathan Baum <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:20:09 -0500

See also

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112485/aaron-swartz-profile-internet-will-never-save-you#

for an article about Swartz in the current New Republic.

Nathan Baum

Associate Director, Collection Strategy and Management
Stony Brook University Libraries
Stony Brook, New York  11794-3300
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:23 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:37:14 +0400
>
> Hi All
>
> There is an article in the Chronicle on Aaron Swartz.  The title is
> "Aaron Swartz was right."  As far as I can tell, the article defends
> Swartz's feelings, and, perhaps even his actions.  I get that sense
> from the snippet of the article's opening paragraph, and from the
> blurb sent in the advertising mail: "The current academic publishing
> system is prettied-up extortion. He defied it, and the rest of us
> should too."
>
> So, why haven't I read the entire article?  Because the Chronicle's
> article dealing with the way in which "academic publishing system is
> prettied-up extortion" and arguing that we should defy it, is, itself,
> locked behind the Chronicle's pay-wall.  And I wonder if they are
> aware of the irony.  Unfortunately, probably not.
>
> For those of you who have paid your dues ("extortion", quoting the
> blurb), or who are at institutions who have paid their dues, the
> article is at:
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/Aaron-Swartz-Was-Right/137425/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
>
> Regards
>
> Ken
>
> Dr. Ken Masters
> Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
> Medical Education Unit
> College of Medicine & Health Sciences
> Sultan Qaboos University
> Sultanate of Oman
> E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education