Me, a non-academic writer: I'd like to access this article about an obscure 19th century naval engagement that, if provided for free, would be read by like five people a year. You, an academic website: that will be $45 to read it for a day.
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It's called "capitalism"
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You're not right about the market demand! Elsevier gets millions of dollars from every university so that we can bypass their precious paywalls. It's a huge business.
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capitalism, how does it work
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Makes me wonder if that paywall is more for protection of the work from broad review rather than pure profit.
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Most of that academic research was funded in part or whole by the taxpayer. RIP Aaron Swartz
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It's even worse because most of that research is funded by taxpayers.
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They’ve even won in court arguing a syllabus is IP
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