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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why scientists HAVE to publish on those platforms rather than some other reasonable alternative?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would guess university agreements with publishers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, that sucks tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Aka academic corruption.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Why scientists HAVE to pay to publish on those platforms rather than some other reasonable alternative?