Dunno about a court case, but my many years of experience of academic publishers is that they are very tight about releasing any freebies at all, even old ones. I was quite surprised to see that free pdfs were available and thought at the time that someone at Springer probably goofed. Springer is not the worst of them but is certainly up there in terms of difficulty getting free access. Once you see a tantalising reference to something in a journal published by a top level academic publishers you usually know that you will either have to pay or go through an institutional library to download it. Morris > Seems to me that there was a court case where Springer was ordered to follow through on its promise to release all books and academic papers to the public domain after something like 5 or 10 years. > Anybody else remember anything like that? > -Chuck Harris