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

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I would guess university agreements with publishers

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Oh, that sucks tho

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Aka academic corruption.

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

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