Re: [gaia] Community Networks special issue of Computer Networks journal

[Leandro Navarro <[e-mail]>]

Here a page: http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/cn-relevant-papers
where you’ll find most of the papers from that special issue as open access. Regards, Leandro.

> On 10 Apr 2016, at 12:35, Leandro Navarro <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, most papers of that issue should available under green open access. 
> 
> For instance:
> Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks
> http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn <http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn> (the paper and related materials).
> 
> In a few days we (with the editors of the issue) can find out about the others and share with you a list of open access versions of the papers of that special issue. As Arjuna says, for many reasons we have the legal and moral obligation to publish open access the author’s version (same content, less fancy format). The discussion can be lengthy ...
> 
> In another Elsevier issue we also described the guifi.net <http://guifi.net/> community network from an organisational perspective, and here’s the green OA version: (this time in three languages)
> http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf <http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf>
> http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-es.pdf <http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-es.pdf>
> http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-ca.pdf <http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-ca.pdf>
> 
> Best regards, Leandro.
> 
>> On 10 Apr 2016, at 10:38, Mitar <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I know that we published our paper online, I do not know about others:
>> 
>> https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper <https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper>
>> 
>> 
>> Mitar
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Arjuna Sathiaseelan
>> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>> kind words :)
>>> 
>>> we need more of this: http://sci-hub.io/ <http://sci-hub.io/>
>>> 
>>> On 10 April 2016 at 09:23, Mitar <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi!
>>>> 
>>>> But I am glad to see e-mail addresses from Princeton and Cambridge.
>>>> You two are in perfect position to liberate all of them somehow. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mitar
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Arjuna Sathiaseelan
>>>> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>>>> same as zero rating ;)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 10 April 2016 at 06:23, Nick Feamster <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All of the papers are behind a paywall.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Global access to the Internet for all"... Ah, the irony.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On April 10, 2016 12:34:03 AM EDT, Mitar <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> While reading latest RFC draft I noticed it does not cite any of the
>>>>>>> papers from the Community Networks special issue of Computer Networks
>>>>>>> journal:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13891286/93/part/P2 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13891286/93/part/P2>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I suspect that maybe it was missed because it is fairly recent? But I
>>>>>>> think articles very much address many questions the RFC draft is
>>>>>>> trying to address as well: what are recent organizational and
>>>>>>> technical advancements in community networks and their deployments.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would urge editors to read through papers and see how to integrate
>>>>>>> information from those papers into the RFC. I will continue reading
>>>>>>> the RFC myself and try to find cases where papers would help as well.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mitar
>>>>>> 

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