Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

A great article on Cuba's El Paquete, its formally illegal network of internet data distributed through USB drives. It's a ingenious workaround & I wonder about its applicability in other scenarios: <https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2019/the-human-infrastructure-of-el-paquete-cubas-offline-internet> Thanks to @gcupc for hipping to El Paquete's existence!

Thank you to the Iowa State University Library for joining the Engineering Archive Membership Circle!

https://blog.engrxiv.org/membership-circle/

#Engineering #OpenAccess

I'm going to have to steer clear of Bemidji for a while.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/10/make-beltrami-great-again/

2019 was a great year for the Engineering Archive. We hope you'll help us keep up the momentum in 2020!

https://blog.engrxiv.org/2019/12/end-of-the-year-update-2019

#HappyNewYear #Engineering #OpenAccess #OpenEngr

This was very fun!
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Thank you to MIT Libraries for joining the Engineering Archive Membership Circle! Your support helps make our efforts to bring greater #OpenAccess to #engineering more successful.
https://blog.engrxiv.org/membership-circle/

"Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article"

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52646

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.

Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.

Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.

A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/