I just don't understand how so much academic output was ceded to private companies with no benefit to the people actually doing (and even funding!) the work. I get it when it's for physical books, but not pdfs etc. Surely there should be a freely accessible state version?https://twitter.com/LMcAtackney/status/1308184448173854721 …
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I was in the middle of the nonsense because it was my friend who asked for a PDF, and I can tell you the amount of goalposts being moved and a persistent deliberate ignorance as to why the PDF was needed and that it’s about not having access to the library was ignored.
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You'd think there might be a bit more empathy for people's difficulty in accessing materials given we are in the middle of a bloomin pandemic
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It's pure racketeering. I don't understand how everyone goes along with it. I know setting up something else is difficult, but it's not like this current system is easy either
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I think part of the problem yesterday was that people decided this was the time that we should be considering all the problems with academic publishing and library access. They aren’t wrong, but there is a time and a place.
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as to all the tweets about pdf file sharing like its a bad thing. Who wouldn’t do it? I’m assuming this is why certain publishers won’t let us have final proofs for OUR OWN WORK lest we share it.