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Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution
Geovanis, Chris
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Heleta, Savo
Article
2016
The Conversation
Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result.
EducationSources.ca
Website
2017
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Meet the Robin Hood of Science
Oxenham, Simon
Article
2016
Big Think
The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t...
Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
McCook, Alison
Article
2016
Retraction Watch
A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to e...
Predatory Journals: Write, Submit, and Publish the Next Day
Hakami, Ramzi
Article
2017
www.csicop.org
Predatory journals can be defined as "publications [that take] large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services." They usually "recruit articles through aggressive marketing and sp...
Science's pirate queen
Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment
Graber-Stiehl, Ian
Article
2018
The Verge
A profile of open access academic publishing activist Alexandra Elbakayan and the ongoing conflict between academics and for-profit academic publishing houses.
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Oransky, Ivan
Article
2016
Retraction Watch
The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, M...
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
Bohannon, John
Article
2016
Science
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.

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