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Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications

Posted by timothy on from the summer-reading dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Wikipedian, Greg Maxwell, has released 33GiB of scientific publications [note: torrent] from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in response to the arrest of Aaron Swartz for, effectively, downloading too many articles from JSTOR. The release consists of 18,592 scientific articles previously released at $8-$19 each and all published prior to 1923 and so public domain."

2 of 242 comments (clear)

  1. Re:legal? by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it's volunteer work written up and edited for free for the benefit of mankind, then locked up by transfer of copyright and published very expensively. If you don't pay $19 for each article you read, then the world will be destabilized and fall into a spontaneously created black hole, and baby Jesus will weep from his expensive condo on Mount Olympus, Mars.

  2. Re:legal? by Duradin · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you're saying all those public domain works *aren't* free for the taking at Barnes and Noble?