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SciHub can and does do it for less. It's the whole point of the article.
by themartorana 11y ago
SciHub can and does do it for less. It's the whole point of the article.
- ikeboy 11y agoSciHub piggybacks on the publishers' work. Stealing the output of a company and giving it away does not mean you can do their work for less.
- riscy 11y agoIt's the researcher who produced and typeset the article; the publisher does nothing more than hosting PDFs sent directly from the authors after they passed peer review, which is not something the publisher is involved with.
- ikeboy 11y agoThis is false. If all they did was host pdfs everyone would just use arxiv. See http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676 http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie... for a good overview of all the sides here.