Bernard: Same thing happened about 5 years ago with the IBM J. of R&D and IBM Systems Journal—they got absorbed into the IEEE paywall system. Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Twitter: @ComputerHistory On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:00 AM, <members-request@sigcis.org<mailto:members-request@sigcis.org>> <members-request@sigcis.org<mailto:members-request@sigcis.org>> wrote: Send Members mailing list submissions to members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@sigcis.org> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to members-request@sigcis.org You can reach the person managing the list at members-owner@sigcis.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) Summer Interns program (Taylor-Smith, Ella) 2. Bell Tech Journal paywall (Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:11:44 +0000 From: "Taylor-Smith, Ella" <E.Taylor-Smith@napier.ac.uk> To: "members@sigcis.org" <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) Summer Interns program Message-ID: <3260CE66C43B7F48AC31B9D4AE66273303906E84@MER-EXCH2.napier.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi this seems to have some interesting history strands this year. e.g. ) Histories of computing and the internet that focus on the experiences of people from marginalized social, economic, racial, or geographic groups http://socialmediacollective.org/2014/11/22/its-msr-social-media-collective-... (I'm just passing this on and don't have any deeper knowledge of the program) -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:03:15 +0100 From: Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan <bernard.geoghegan@hu-berlin.de> To: members@sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Bell Tech Journal paywall Message-ID: <54731073.2060702@hu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" 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 f?r Kulturwissenschaft Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin www.bernardg.com