Forgive me a little TLA bingo: MIT made SAE back off DRM. Nicely played, MIT.
This is one stick libraries can wield to help solve the recalcitrant-publisher problem. Play nice with the NIH public-access policy or we drop our subscription to your journal like a hot potato. I think faculty would appreciate the gesture, truthfully.
It’d be a bigger stick if a critical mass of research libraries were to express this intention out loud and with a collective recalcitrant-publisher list to work from.
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He querido más vivir en mi pequeña casa, exenta y señora, que no en sus ricos palacios, sojuzgada y cativa.
—Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina
(I prefer living in my little house, free and my own mistress, to living in their rich palaces, downtrodden and wretched.)
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Wandle Chintz pattern by William Morris, courtesy of the William Morris Gallery.
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