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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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 @CanaryCaroline and
I absolutely agree with that. But, having been a grad student (and an unfunded independent scholar), I still think it is not wrong for a publisher to point out that they need to make money. And we need to recognise that.
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I'm sorry but I do not agree. It is not appropriate to harangue a grad student for asking for a PDF when they have ignored everyone else who have been asking for PDFs, all it did was direct harassment towards a PhD student.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
But it wasn't, surely? Unless I am missing something, this was just a tweet explaining the situation? I do relate, because I felt really awful when I tweeted someone and asked for their newly-published book, only for them to explain they'd actually relied on people buying it.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @CanaryCaroline and
Have you looked through the entire thread? Did you see Caroline's initial tweet? That wasn't explaining anything, that was just some passive aggressive nonsense, and clearly she only cares because it's a book from her publisher. If she cared about the moral issue 1/
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