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Dear Nettimers, here's a call to action a number of us working on digital libraries and archives have published on Monday in response to Elsavier's injunction against Library Genesis and Science Hub. Due to a problem with nettime's Mailman software, the letter failed to arrive after several people have tried. Therefore, to avoid any quirk with formatting preventing the letter to come through, now we're not pasting in the letter. The letter can be found here http://custodians.online in English and a number of translations people around the world have spontaneously contributed over the last couple of days. The letter is an attempt to give a voice to the anger that we saw percolating across the internet after the sites were taken down. While the sites are back online, we think it's time to leave the game of hide and seek behind. This gesture is hopefully a first step in establishing a network of solidarity for the future struggles. As you will see in the letter, we're introducing the identity of 'custodian', which is inclusive and hopefully motivating for anyone who cares about knowledge, particularly addressing places around the world where illegal access is the only way of access. As we move on to next steps, we look forward to your thoughtful comments. Tom # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org