Hi folks,
I've asked this question before in private with not a lot of good responses, but I'll put it out to a wider audience. One of the things that is nice about being a university is full online journal access.
For myself, in the past I've had friends inside a uni run an underground proxy server for me so I can access said licensed content ("
Right to Read" anyone?). UC Berkeley offers the general public library access for $100 a year, which is great but cost prohibitive for starving hackers
My question is: is there someway we can get hackerspaces and members forge a path to having access to non-open access journals? Maybe through some sort of library grant, or charity access, or something? My library knowledge here falls short. But there are multiple great reasons for us to do this:
* accelerate research and innovation at a grassroots/citizen level. One of the biggest wins I see here is with citizen driven disease research (austin just opened a