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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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
I've asked authors to share their work with me for free, and I try to do this less now that I know it's quite a fraught request. But I don't think it is wrong for publishers to point out that they build their business model on the expectation of people buying what they sell.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
I think the problem we have is that open access has drastically helped tenured/secure academics and not the precariat/grad students.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
40 years ago, if you wanted a book, you bought it or you found it in a library. Perhaps you shared it, but you were limited to photocopying or physically moving that book around. Same for grads students as for professors.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
Now, if you are permanent/tenured, chances are you can access most things you want, either online or through loans or through quiet networks with others who will happily share.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
Grad students/ precariat academics won't have that. Often, we have no institutional access at all. We should be angry about that and should petition for better access. But I don't think that means we should be angry with publishers.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
I've repeatedly been asked to teach courses with no access at all - not even a library card. I am angry about that. I know about grad students who're cut off from libraries when their funding ends, and that also seems needlessly unfair.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
Can anyone tell me why universities can't advance access rights to precariat scholars (grad students, or ECRs)?
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To respond to your points: no one ever said that publishers don't need money. But they aren't making money off grad students, and it was a person who works for a publisher who came here to shame a grad student asking for a PDF.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @LucyAllenFWR and
The business model of a publisher breaking even on highly priced books where they only print 200-300 of them, where most of the purchases are made via libraries and not precarious PhDs and academics is an issue but it isn't one that a grad student can solve.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @LucyAllenFWR and
And I really bristle at people with jobs saying that grad students are thieves or in the wrong for asking for a PDF. We aren't taking money away from anyone. Any books that I love enough to read over and over I'd buy eventually, and those I just need a page ref for I'd never get
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