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> If Elsevier went bancrupt, they could no longer take care for their archives. I could think of more than a few entities that would love to take over their ar
by vertex-four 12y ago
> If Elsevier went bancrupt, they could no longer take care for their archives.
I could think of more than a few entities that would love to take over their archives. archive.org would likely volunteer, and it's in the interests of every single university and corporate entity that uses these papers that they continue to exist. I could very easily see universities agreeing to share the storage of the archives.
If the end goal is to have guaranteed storage of these papers... why on earth is a for-profit company which could theoretically go bust despite all best efforts in charge of looking after them?
- jpfr 12y agoWell, that's a "historically grown" situation. You cannot just take intellectual property away from some company. And if a single country tries, they just hand the rights over to the next-best subsidiary on the other side of the world.
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- vertex-four 12y ago> You cannot just take intellectual property away from some company. If the company's about to die, why not? Your argument only works when the company's still going strong. If it's never going to actually make money with its IP, it's entirely illogical for it to spend huge amounts of effort trying to prevent that IP from being made public.
- guan 12y agoJSTOR is the default entity that would take care of archives. They provide access to articles older than 5 years (in most cases) for many journals from both commercial and academic publishers.