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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.

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alien@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why scientists HAVE to publish on those platforms rather than some other reasonable alternative?

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- Kroxx@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would guess university agreements with publishers
  
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  - Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Aka academic corruption.
    
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  - alien@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, that sucks tho
    
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- slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Why scientists HAVE to pay to publish on those platforms rather than some other reasonable alternative?
  
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