Hi SIGCIS,
a grad student at the Humboldt University, Johannes Maibaum, writes:
Two weeks ago,
one was still able to access *all* articles from the archive
of the Bell System Technical Journal at the website of
Alcatel-Lucent. For example the classic ‘Regeneration Theory’
by Harry Nyquist from 1932. Now, all links to articles from
the archive generate a 404 error. If looking for the archives
at their website, one finds this page: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bell-labs-journals were Alcatel-Lucent
claims to be "proud to partner with IEEE to provide access to
Bell Labs’ full journal archive". However, besides only a very
few articles (at least CE Shannons Mathematical Theory...) one
has to pay horrendous prices. Seriously, is this what Aaron
Swartz died for? Shouldn't the scientific community protest
harshly against such a locking away of once free knowledge?
I think a few of you members have links to Lucent and to Bell Labs
archives. Any idea what's up with this? An oversight or is Lucent
trying to monetize these journal issues now? Archive.org still seems
to have free access, at least...
Best,
Bernard
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Dr. Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
Institut für Kulturwissenschaft
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
www.bernardg.com