From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:05:26 -0700 The language of “forced” and “driven” certainly offended me when the publicity about the SPARC piece on NPR circulated. Not only does it put librarians and scientists/scholars in a bad light, it’s just plain untrue. (Contempt for the law because it requires you to click your trackpad a few times too many or wait 48 hours quite reeks of 1% privilege, I’m sorry to say.) Those who think of this work as civil disobedience do unwarranted honor to the SciHub impresario, hiding in a foreign country and using phishing tactics to advance the cause. I doubt any employee of an American university wants to be told by their employer that they have not only violated the acceptable use policy of the institution (loss of network privileges a likely consequence) but also “acted beyond the scope of one’s employment”, which leaves the one who has done so to pay all legal costs and face all legal consequences quite alone. We have in fact made vast progress towards a much more open and accessible common collection of scientific and scholarly information. The creative, responsible, sensible course is to work for further improvement. Jim O’Donnell ASU