Man I hate JSTOR - the JPASS option for ppl with no uni affiliation doesn't get you access to "scholarly books [or] primary sources"
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To be fair it's not JUST JSTOR, I also deeply loathe Elsevier. and the entire academic gatekeeping complex.
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Finding out that some journals force authors to pay a couple grand to make a paper open access was horrifying.
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In my experience the actual researchers want everyone interested to be able to access their work. But industries are built on building gates
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So when I say "academic gatekeepers" I really do not mean the people doing the work. The publishers & repositories, on the other hand...
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Yeah it fucking sucks. And even in an institution, you don't get 100% access. Lots of stuff I can't see, so I gotta pay €8 to request them.
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That is a decent discount...but that stuff really adds up.
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