Ancestors

Written by Unruffled [he/him] on 2024-08-28 at 15:24

Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people.

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Toot

Written by Mereo@lemmy.ca on 2024-08-28 at 16:33

I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to go to publishers, who are basically the mafia gatekeepers, who profit from information that should be open to everyone. And the university profits from this lucrative business.

This Youtube video will open your eyes to this business: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

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Descendants

Written by Adda@lemmy.ml on 2024-08-28 at 17:22

As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

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Written by wvstolzing on 2024-08-28 at 18:46

That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

‘Oxford Scholarship Online’ would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn’t get access to books classified under sociology or history.

Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a ‘physical’ library.

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Written by wvstolzing on 2024-08-28 at 17:27

Here’s another video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (including an interview with the great Alexandra Elbakyan).

Cory Doctorow recently wrote about this in some detail (incl. helpful links): pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not…

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Written by prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2024-08-28 at 19:48

The ghost of Aaron Swartz, is that you?

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