Notorious in Libraries Posted Thu, 22 Feb 2007

My Overprice Tags projects from a few days back has been getting a bunch of attention.

Perhaps most interesting, the MIT libraries -- whose journals we defaced augmented in the project -- have been unbelievably positive about the project! They've written up a very positive description of the event on their website and published an interview with me as well!

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This is really cool. I know from personal experience at my uni that journal pricing is outrageous and most libraries don't want to see their whole budget go towards journal subscriptions. My undergrad university was a very small state university and we had very few scientific journals (People! Magazine yes, Journal of the American Chemical Society no). I t really does hamper scientific research when only the bigger schools with big enough budgets can get access to research paid for by taxpayer dollars.
Posted by Jordan Mantha at Thu Feb 22 14:09:42 2007
Thanks for your effort - it is really appreciated and I really hope it will some day be seen as one of the small things that started a paradigm shift!
Posted by aguafuertes at Thu Feb 22 18:28:26 2007

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