For our next Page Breaks, we’re talking about illegal online archives: what they mean for researchers, for those outside the academy and traditional educational structures, as well as more general discussion on academic paywalls, publishing, libraries, and other online ebook archives. We’ll listen to one podcast episode and read one short article to open up the topic.
When and Where
1pm, Monday 16th October, Arts 237
The room is on the second floor of the Arts building. Turn left from the landing on floor 2, and Arts 237 is at the far end of the long corridor.
Text(s)
You can access a PDF of this week’s texts on our password-protected page – email Dorothy (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk) for the password.
- Radiolab podcast episode about Sci-Hub – ‘The Library of Alexandra’ (Listen on Radiolab’s site / Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
- David Streitfeld’s article in the NYT about the Internet Archive (also known as archive.org), ‘The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco’ (Read on our site / NYT)