So we should limit availability to wealthy or connected individuals like the insufferable one that just liked your tweet? If academia has no place for disabled or poor scholars, then there's a bigger problem than profitability of university presses.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @Stephen876 and
Then don't have books. Put your work up on http://Academia.edu . or your own website. But don't hate a publisher for needing to cover their costs.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @Stephen876 and
Precisely what field do you think I could write in without using previously published books? Are you completely divorced from the reality I and others experience? We can't succeed without access. We can't get access without succeeding.
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Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @Stephen876 and
And we can't publish books unless we cover our costs. I'm really sorry. I know I sound horrible. But I just don't know how to square this circle. We do try so hard to make everything available on JSTOR. Bit I know it's not available to everyone.
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Replying to @CanaryCaroline @Gearoid_Dubh and
I don’t understand why you think that it was at all appropriate to come into a grad student’s mentions to shame him over what is clearly a wider issue that isn’t his lie any other grad student’s to solve.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
You apologized to Chris but we’re more than happy to let others come and attack him over this. You complain about being pilloried and you wonder why?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
Academic books are inaccessible to many, especially right now. If you think there is a problem there then you should be advocating for unis to be acquiring access rather than this. This has gone on for over a day.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
But given the wide response to this, you should reconsider your position and your approach.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
Especially given you are responding to a bunch of disabled or neurodivergent PhD students and independent researchers who already have accessibility problems. But my question is did you get all high and mighty to the tenured people saying they have PDFs to give away?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
Also you followed me for months and I requested PDFs as well, and you didn’t get rude at me. Is it just Boydell then that you think no one should have PDFs of?
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Why do you think it was so widely popular when things went OA for a few months? People need materials. I am very curious what you think I ought to do when it is unsafe for me to go to the library to get a book for my thesis I am handing in soon.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
But, publishers do need money to survive, right?
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
I had no institutional access for much of the time when I was writing my book, and I desperately wanted more open access material. But I also recognise that money doesn't come from nothing.
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