Why even say it though? She had no reason to pick Chris and say that. He's not a child, and we all understand that people deserve to be compensated for labour. But I'm not sure that you're getting that Chris has had to deal with over a day's worth of harassment over this.
Except we can't tag in every university here and say, give us access. Libraries too are struggling with requests. Yes, the overarching problem is access. But that isn't going to do anything for Chris right now.
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We could! Why not?! Why are libraries struggling less ok for us to tag than publishers!?
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Feel free then. See if that manages to get anything done. I've seen plenty of librarians saying they are trying to get books and such. I know TCD has tried hard. But they need more money from the overhead institution too.
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Why not tag the library? They will try to get a book, I bet you. And if enough of us make a fuss, universities might actually realise this is their problem. They are asking us to research as professionals, but they're expecting us to keep on working with google books.
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Then you do that for yourself. But in my experience, while libraries can and will try to accommodate requests not all will take them from grad students and they probably won't do it from twitter. It can take weeks or months, demand is likely high. We don't all have the time.
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