Practically, this is available on google books. It lacks the metadata, but google is good at searching.
Ethically, it is reprehensible to imply that Aaron Swartz was intent on piracy. (Does anyone have evidence that he was? ETA: He seems to have endorsed “guerrilla open access” in 2008; and his work on PACER is similar, though more clear-cut than this torrent. But he has used also datasets otherwise.)
Legally, it is clear-cut: digitizing a book creates a new document under copyright. Google and Gutenberg distribute these documents for free, but only for noncommercial use. ETA: this is not true about Gutenberg; it is not clear about Google.
Incidentally, the Royal Society has its own archive; this is not from JSTOR. ETA: no, this is from JSTOR.
I’ll concede that it is at least not clear. In any event, I was wrong about Project Gutenberg and Google’s position is not entirely clear to me. It is worth noting that the Royal Society is in the UK, where the law is definitely different, if not clear.
Incidentally, the Royal Society has its own archive; this is not from JSTOR.
The Royal Society’s archive looks just as walled up as JSTOR’s. I picked out an arbitrary volume from 1693 and tried to get the full-text PDF for a paper, but it asks for a login. I don’t know if anyone can signup for free or has to buy an access package — in any case, it seems unnecessary to make people jump through hoops for papers that are (in their original form) public domain.
Practically, this is available on google books. It lacks the metadata, but google is good at searching.
Ethically, it is reprehensible to imply that Aaron Swartz was intent on piracy. (Does anyone have evidence that he was? ETA: He seems to have endorsed “guerrilla open access” in 2008; and his work on PACER is similar, though more clear-cut than this torrent. But he has used also datasets otherwise.)
Legally, it is clear-cut: digitizing a book creates a new document under copyright. Google and Gutenberg distribute these documents for free, but only for noncommercial use. ETA: this is not true about Gutenberg; it is not clear about Google.
Incidentally, the Royal Society has its own archive; this is not from JSTOR. ETA: no, this is from JSTOR.
What do you base this on? There is a comment on Hacker News stating the opposite.
I’ll concede that it is at least not clear. In any event, I was wrong about Project Gutenberg and Google’s position is not entirely clear to me. It is worth noting that the Royal Society is in the UK, where the law is definitely different, if not clear.
The Royal Society’s archive looks just as walled up as JSTOR’s. I picked out an arbitrary volume from 1693 and tried to get the full-text PDF for a paper, but it asks for a login. I don’t know if anyone can signup for free or has to buy an access package — in any case, it seems unnecessary to make people jump through hoops for papers that are (in their original form) public domain.