I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to publish his articles to for-profit 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
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.
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.
The ghost of Aaron Swartz, is that you?
Here’s another video: https://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): https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
Professor with tenure.
If I was a lecturer/professor, I’d totally do that.
But also, don’t forget to use adblock!
Libgen had a 502 error a couple days ago. Glad to see them back.
Anyway completely opposite as one of my teachers. I had to buy my teachers book for his course. The book he gave us was a binder with photocopied pages… Wtf?..
You own the fucking copyright. Give it to us for free.
Printing and binding is expensive, not to mention a waste of paper, you can’t really expect them to front that cost IMO. He should have just given you the PDF instead printing it.
That’s what I meant for giving it to us for free.
Also he got free photocopies from the school. That comes from tuition too.
That’s what I meant for giving it to us for free.
Fair enough, that wasn’t clear to me at least.
Oftentimes that comes out of department budgets. That’s not necessarily 100% tuition funded.
Edit: meaning printer stuff… my department had our own photocopy machine. It was a department asset.
It truly baffles me how teachers could morally justify that. I would immediately think “Wait, if I make my students buy my textbook for the unit, I’m just fleecing them and they have no choice in the matter.” and you would naively hope that anyone else would also feel the same way.
But how else is he going to pay for his yacht… I mean, pay to feed his children… Yeah, that’s relatable with millennials and zoomers that are so far in debt and earning so little that they can’t afford kids, right?
extremely based professor
Remember you absolutely must not go to these specific sites.
Do not do it.
See you all tomorrow for class.
my hero 😎
b-ok.cc has a big giant warning that the website has been seized by the FBI
Is that just a backup of the old one or does it still get updated?
Here i was hoping that it had popped back up.
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What a legend!
@Flatworm7591 I heard about libgen and sci-hub from my uni professors. Before that, I never knew anything about them.
