The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic dissection and animal vivisection—or some degree of this (Pellow, 2014)—universities fail to enact real examples of socioecological of renewability and sustainability. How come universities are not overflowing with agroecology, permaculture and forest gardens on and inside universities? How come universities are not self-generating their own electricity needs through wind, solar and other lower-carbon infrastructures? We, unfortunately, are witnessing the opposite at university campuses around the world.
- Kallioapina ( @Kallioapina@lemm.ee ) English80•4 months ago
This is also a big reason why I’m few weeks from submitting my masters for inspection, and 90% of my references/sources are from Annas Archive / Zlib. Our uni library, in supposedly rich nordic country Finland, just cant afford all the licenses. Luckily all our professors and researchers are in on the “secret”, but its just a fucking joke.
Most of the world economy is on the same fucking joke. Just leeches upon leeches upon leeches… And so few people giving anything usefull to the world. I fucking try, but god damn these useless money leeches in the middle try to make it hard as possible. Fuck. So fucking angry, but what can I do but try to minimize the damages I do on my personal part.
Keep screaming. People are not informed on this.
- belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) English10•4 months ago
They are but until “apes together strong” takes peoples minds nothing will change. People feel powerless to do anything so companies just get away with it
That’s why we can’t shut up. :)
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) English13•4 months ago
Good luck on this final push; take care of yourself where possible and stay angry at the things that deserve it
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English35•4 months ago
If the research was conducted with public money, it should be freely accessible by the public, change my mind…
- MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) English20•4 months ago
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English6•4 months ago
Very cool. I know someone, in a fairly small but funded field, who had this sort of requirement — Elsevier had the relevant publication, but they couldn’t publish there due to access policies (or it was going to be painful to do so at any rate). So they started their own publication!
I forgot the specifics, but it essentially uses arXiv as the backend, and there’s a (commercially available?) frontend that lets editors and reviewers do their thing. “Publishing” in this journal is essentially just endorsing an arXiv paper; so it’s open access by design.
Really cool stuff. Their field is small enough that iirc they could kinda get critical mass to give Elsevier the finger and adopt this new platform. Warm fuzzy feeling thinking about it!
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English12•4 months ago
also a lot of research work in brazil disallows you to get a second job. you are forced to live with the little money they pay you.
its almost like they don’t want there to be research here.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•4 months ago
science is meant to be pirated.
Fuck publishers.
- doubtingtammy ( @doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml ) English9•4 months ago
And sci-hub paused adding more papers 😞
- wieson ( @wieson@feddit.de ) English4•4 months ago
Is that 15 weeks of minimum wage or 15 months?
- Tnaeriv ( @Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz ) English5•4 months ago
Months. Brazil’s minimum wage is BRL 1413 per month, which is around $273.
- nintendiator ( @nintendiator@feddit.cl ) English3•4 months ago
only option is pay out of pocket
Or, ya know, self publish.
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) English1•4 months ago
I mean hypothetically yes, but if you’re in the sciences tenure, promotion, and wages will be based on publication in high impact factor, for profit journals, so that’s not realistic.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 months ago
Luckily there are several tools and scripts to bypass paywalls and also those that redirect to the original publication, when the anti-paywall does not work.
- Belzebubulubu ( @Belzebubulubu@mujico.org ) English2•4 months ago
My man, my guy. I beg of you, shared them please
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) English4•4 months ago
Searching original sources of sci publications
Skip paywalls (sadly not all)
- https://www.removepaywall.com
- https://www.smry.ai
- https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates
- https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- https://paywallreader.com
Scripts
- Frogodendron ( @Frogodendron@beehaw.org ) English2•4 months ago
Why isn’t Brazil on the list of countries that have their fees waived? Are they on the “rich” side of the spectrum for that to be considered or is there simply no agreement between Brazilian government/publishers?
Yes, I know this is treating a symptom rather than illness itself, but for the sake of today’s science and not the science of tomorrow, at least such an option should be available.
- xthexder ( @xthexder@l.sw0.com ) English3•4 months ago
Brazil’s approach for fostering innovation and technology is to tax all outside tech at 100%, even though no local industry for the products even exists. I don’t have high expectations for them investing in scientific publishing.