I think it is important for folks to recognize how hard this must have been and how many heated verbal battles were exchanged inside of MIT over this. Thank You. And thank Aaron, always a champion in spreading the world's knowledge to the most people possible. We should empower everyone as much as we can with the bits we have available.
Ah man I forgot about Computer Music Journal, thanks! I got a copy of one issue from a colleague some years ago and it had lots of interesting stuff. Guess now I can get a digital copy (among the rest of the back-catalogue), haha :)
The ACM did this with their digital library to support people during working/studying remotely during COVID but seemingly had a change of heart and put the paywall back up a short while after receiving all the positive publicity despite the pandemic still interfering with education and work habits.
Fortunately someone managed to scrape the entire thing and there's a 500Gb torrent out there with the full content of all the journals and conference proceedings.
Springer did this awhile ago for a weekend, not its entire catalog but many books were free to download. It was wonderful, but brief. From down thread, https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-direct-open
I think it is important for folks to recognize how hard this must have been and how many heated verbal battles were exchanged inside of MIT over this. Thank You. And thank Aaron, always a champion in spreading the world's knowledge to the most people possible. We should empower everyone as much as we can with the bits we have available.
Folks should check some fun journals like
Computer Music Journal https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/comj
Evolutionary Computation https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/evco
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