You see, the problem, publishers, is that your “business” should not have been a business in the first place.
She looks nice.
How old is she?
Good for her.
I’m surprised it was an actual woman instead of a trans woman, for once.
Hmm, guess we’re not allowed to call actual women ‘actual women’ anymore.
What a world.
“Actual woman”? Yikes.
actual woman
you might want to rephrase that (cis woman, for example)
While it’s true that publishers do something of value, the amount they charge is absurd.
What makes it even worse is that so many of the people involved are donating their labour. It reminds me of college sports in the US. The actual people doing the work, the athletes, are forced to do it for free. Meanwhile, a few select groups: coaches, TV networks, etc. are making huge amounts of money.
Yeah, I have no problem with people being compensated for their work.
The problem is that the discussion usually ends at “compensation” and never includes “how much?” Useful idiots believe that whatever price is charged is always fair and necessary, which is sad.
In a system literally built around the amount of money we have, we sure do like to believe that magnitude doesn’t matter.
“Stolen”…where did the originals go?
Directly to zlibrary
Public knowledge can’t be stolen IMHO
“He stole my idea!”
Mad respect.
Filling in Aaron Swartz footsteps
Hopefully not all the way…
articles aren’t - and cannot be - stolen; articles are meant to be read.
You can steal potential profits.
Stealing profits that are already made by stealing? Yeah, I have no sympathy for that.
Tax payers already pay for this shit through federal funding of the sciences, just for the publishers to turn around and steal people’s time and money to view and peer review them. Publishers are thieves, so they can go fuck themselves.
I agree, If the research was funded by the government; then the research belongs to the people.
Publishers and corporations is why IP laws are so fucked up beyond recognition.
information isn’t profit
Legends walk among us
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Hi 😏
Your choice of words may trigger some people around here…
hero
Is that the Anna from Anna’s archive?
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Badass
As someone in science that has used this many times, I can’t emphasize enough how much this has accelerated research in the modern era. I am so grateful for her work.
A huge aspect of this also is that it disproportionately benefits academics and students in parts of the world where there is less institutional access to journal subscriptions. That is to say that SciHub has been a significant force for democratising knowledge and countering historic inequities.
Yep, I just found out about it recently because I was doing research on a project. I had heard, but never explored or looked into, sci-hub. I had no idea about it. I don’t know how I missed it all of these years!
Sadly no longer updated but I think libgen and some other services are filling the gaps.
Yeah, I was bummed to find out it’s no longer updated. But there are so many articles that it’s still helpful and great. And she still is holding the flame by keeping it up. I’m checking out libgen right now actually.
Fr. After I graduated I was cut off from access to scientific literature, which is a major blow when trying to keep up in ones field.
She also has a very funny article about how Stalin is a God of Science
