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- GUERRILLA OPENACCESS
- a peer-to-peer easy-to-evaluate protocol for sharing paywalled papers
- Fellow academics tend to share papers to help underprivileged colleagues. This is already been done, but it usually goes underground, hidden between different networks, some in clear, some in the deep web. We are far from having radical openness in academic research, and we know there is no magic bullet for this. An adequate response will be a change in our access and business models, but it will requires time and expertise.
- Here a peer-to-peer method is proposed. It goes without saying, different method can be deployed, some more, some less ethically dubious; it is not within the scope of this paste to provide this evaluation. This is a proposal in the classical spirit of civil disobedience motivated by the idea that by helping fellows in difficulty through sharing our resources with them we can set up the stage for more open, collaborative academic community. Even those that used to feed at the banquet of knowledge, might be locked out in times of economic crisis. This is why we still need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
- a>SETUP
- 1. use your twitter account (or open one if case you don't have it)
- 2. go to twitter.com/settings/security and enable "direct message from anyone".
- b>REQUEST A PAPER
- 1. compose new tweet
- 2. paste the URL of the paper, add title if space is left
- 3. add the hash #guerrillaOA
- 4. send your tweet and wait
- c>FULFILL A REQUEST
- 1. follow the hash #guerrillaOA
- 2. choose a tweet-request
- 3. check if there is a reply like (7)
- 4. if not, check if you have access to the paper
- 5. ask the sender for email via private message
- 6. send the paper
- d>CLOSE A REQUEST
- 7. once you receive your paper reply to your own tweet with "done", without the hashtag
- >EXAMPLE
- 1. tweet request by @sampleuser:
- "Liberal party performance and polarisation
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10361146.2015.1006166#abstract #guerrillaOA" (62characters)
- 2. DM by @otheruser
- 3. reply by @sampleuser "done!"
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