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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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @CanaryCaroline and
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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @CanaryCaroline and
Unless I'm mistaken, yes, I've seen the original tweet - I think she is just pointing out that books don't get published out of nothing, and there's money involved? Am I seeing the wrong tweet?
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Replying to @LucyAllenFWR @AdmiralHip and
I really think the issue is not publishers, but access. Why are we not angry that precarious scholars don't have access? I don't follow this bit.
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We are angry, but considering the issue is that people decided to come and attack a grad student and then get upset for being told off, that is the issue right now. Of course we're angry about access. I think we'd otherwise not use free copies.
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