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I am a person who has been benefited by Sci-Hub immensely and hope that it continues to stay just like the Libgen project. Journal publishers need to wake up an
by kronos29296 9y ago
I am a person who has been benefited by Sci-Hub immensely and hope that it continues to stay just like the Libgen project.
Journal publishers need to wake up and get their wits together and do something.
It used to be proprietary Software everywhere before GNU and Linux. Nowadays FSF has made FLOSS a good thing. Today we have FOSS everywhere. Even Microsoft which used to be a bastion of proprietary software now has Open Source projects.
Something similar to that needs to sweep the Academic publishing world otherwise progress will only slow down due to closed nature of existing literature.