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Screenshot of sparcopen.org: MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

498 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 173 comments

SPARC resource profiling how MIT Libraries handled ending its Big Deal subscription contract with Elsevier, part of its unbundling profiles knowledge base.

elsevier mit-libraries academic-publishing open-access

Screenshot of infosec.exchange: Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow (infosec.exchange)

957 points by luu 3 years ago | 247 comments

A Mastodon thread about a professor's slow SPARC workstation; the visible post is John Regehr sharing a screenshot of the xroach X11 cockroach program's README.

xroach x11 sparc unix

#sparc on Hacker News

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract(sparcopen.org)

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow(infosec.exchange)

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow (infosec.exchange)