Lapeña, Jose Florencio F.

Open access: DOAJ and plan S, digitization and disruption/ Jose Florencio F. Lapeña. -- 2019.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32412/pjohns.v34i2.1111

Those with access to these resources students, librarians, scientists you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not indeed, morally, you cannot keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. - Aaron Swartz1 (who killed himself at the age of 26, facing a felony conviction and prison sentence for downloading millions of academic journal articles)

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