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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Like coming to say, well this is an access problem, we know it is but we can’t do anything about it right now. That shouldn’t be the argument against using PDFs. We use them because the alternative is just going without, not forcing the library to get what you need.
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For the short term given the circumstances I don't get why people should be mean spirited about sharing pdfs, especially students ffs. For the long term I believe that the basic policy should be if the work was publicly funded (even in part) it should be publicly accessible.
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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.