Bell Tech Journal paywall
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 -- Dr. Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Institut für Kulturwissenschaft Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin www.bernardg.com
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