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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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @CanaryCaroline and
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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @LucyAllenFWR and
and I would have just gone to the library to use. So all this hand wringing about publishers being directed at grad students and not institutions and academia in general for putting us in this position is pretty terrible. I'm really starting to despise publishing discourse here.
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I'm seeing a shocking amount of classism and ableism from people who are demanding that we treat them as their comrades when they can't do the same for us.
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