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1. Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 04:13:46 EDT Steve Biggs
   Arguments against #DRM (e.g. http://v.ht/Zaa9) apply to #OpenAccess academic journal publications too @calligraffiti @therealpennyfortheguy
   1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 06:44:18 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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      DRM on journals? *dies a little more inside*
      1. Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 07:37:07 EDT Steve Biggs

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         @tomas Don't panic! No DRM on journals AFAIK. Just there's a parallel - in both cases publishers are profiting from someone else's work.
         1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 07:47:27 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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            @thestevebiggs That's a relief at least. Still messed up that we still have this situation - publicly funded things should be accessible to all
            1. Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 08:19:54 EDT Steve Biggs

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               @tomas Exactly! I've though about starting my own open access journal. All you need is a webserver and a LaTeX template!
               1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 08:43:20 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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                  @thestevebiggs I'm for it :) Could be combined with uploading to archive.org and maybe IPFS
                  
                  *Pinging @pettter and maybe some of the folks on scholar.social*
                  1. Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 08:56:43 EDT Steve Biggs

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                     @tomas @pettter I dunno. Plasma physics. Fusion. No, probably needs to be quite broad. How about just general physics.
                     1. Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 08:58:36 EDT Steve Biggs

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                        @pettter @tomas  Of course, the secret ingredient is time, of which I have very little. This is why I have yet to put my plan into action!
                        1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 09:21:02 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

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                           @thestevebiggs @pettter It strikes me that arxiv.org takes care of part of this. But of course organizing referees and getting stuff sent off to print takes time and money. Something that could also be publicly funded perhaps