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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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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I agree on both accounts, as I think everything should be open access. But you mention open access to some of these people and they say well how will we be paid?
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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.