Comment on The Code
ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Scientist here. I encourage everyone to use a shadow library like Scihub to break the stranglehold that Elsevier and Wiley have on the free availability of knowledge. These are financialized corporations that add nothing to society and leach off of scientists’ hard work.
alien@lemm.ee [bot] 3 months ago
Why scientists HAVE to publish on those platforms rather than some other reasonable alternative?
Kroxx@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I would guess university agreements with publishers
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Aka academic corruption.
alien@lemm.ee [bot] 3 months ago
Oh, that sucks tho
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 months ago