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>What I would really like to see is a big institution / university take a stand and build something like Scihub to provide free and unlimited access to all of t
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
>What I would really like to see is a big institution / university take a stand and build something like Scihub to provide free and unlimited access to all of their own papers, even those that are stuck behind a paywall for "historic" reasons.
The University of California has already done this.*
Unfortunately their policy does not extend to papers created before their policy was enacted, despite what they had originally claimed.*
* http://escholarship.org/ http://escholarship.org/
* http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/groundbreaking-presidential-oa-policy-covers-all-employees/ http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/groundbreaking...