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an academic paper=97a significant cost, especially because thorough
research on any topic usually entails downloading many papers.
AcaWiki=92s approach takes advantage of the fact that copyright does not
apply to ideas, only to the written expression of those ideas.
Scholars can thus post summaries of their or others=92 research online
as long as they are not copying verbatim beyond what fair-use laws
permit."

In other words, scholars can now access long, meticulously detailed
summaries of the articles they're interested in. Summaries can be
written by any community member with access to the original article,
or by the original team of researchers themselves. Even if academics
face strong incentives or requirements to publish in private journals,
nothing in copyright law prohibits them from republishing a summary
elsewhere.

AcaWiki is built on Semantic MediaWiki, which is free software
available under the GNU GPL (it's the same software the FSF uses for
LibrePlanet). But beyond just using free software, AcaWiki takes a
free software approach: rather than waiting for journals make papers
more available, they're organizing a community of experts to build a
free equivalent that will be just as useful to students and scholars.

If you'd like to be an advocate for AcaWiki in your institution, or
help summarize key papers in your field of expertise, get involved."

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