• theRealBassist@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Also, if you’re not in a rush, just email the authors!

    A vast majority of professors and researchers hate the publishing industry as much as anyone, and will be happy to shoot you a pdf if you’re interested in their work!

    • dave@hal9000@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      When I need it, I know how to pirate, but I am privileged enough in terms of my institution that I can get most of anything I want (I mostly pirate for family needing niche things in engineering, and I am in the humanities). BUT, I had this one occasion that both validated my feelings about the system and fucking infuriated me. A professor from an institution that did not have the right subscriptions emailed me asking for an article I published, because they wanted to assign it for a seminar, but could not legitimately access it. That made me lose my shit. I didn’t get paid, neither did the editors or peer reviewers, but you know, god forbid someone read it for free. Which is when I realized I didn’t even have final copy myself, so I had to go to JS**, download it, spend some time cleaning the “downloaded from XYZ.XYZ.XYZ.XYZ address at XYZ institution” footers on the PDF, sent It to them and encourage them to further pirate that shit