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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @JackmanNeil
Not to mention many presses demand that academics pay the presses to publish.
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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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Replying to @JackmanNeil
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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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
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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It can be complex I suppose, but my personal feeling is that the time and resources needed to produce the output/engagement/paper should be costed in as part of the particular project from the very outset. As in there is no point doing the work if no-one knows what it is.
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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.