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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Replying to @JackmanNeil
Some of the hand wringing was about how free PDFs means that the precarious editors at a press and the academics who wrote the book won’t get paid. But a) the wages or salary of editors is not the responsibility of grad students and b) academics get so little from royalties.
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Not to mention many presses demand that academics pay the presses to publish.
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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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Indeed, which was said frequently. We got a bunch of “I’m sorry it’s hard right now, it’s why our press does X!” But many were not, and called it “illicit” and said my friend was a thief. One of the people was insulting the idea of open access.
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It never ceases to amaze me how someone can be both simultaneously smart and a giant dumbass.
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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.