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 @CanaryCaroline and
I think it's more about explaining the issue? Personally, I did not realise there was any economic problem with asking for a PDF, when I did it. And then, when someone told me, I was glad to know. I didn't feel shamed.
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
And I didn't see how this tweet was shaming?
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It was passive aggressive and was absolutely meant to shame. If you want to talk about the problems with the publishing model you don't pick a grad student to suddenly bother about it.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @LucyAllenFWR and
As I have said I HONESTLY did not mean to shame
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