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Anecdotally, my university has been paying for fewer and fewer journal subscriptions. I was looking through the literature the other day and about half of the a
by stuartbman 5y ago
Anecdotally, my university has been paying for fewer and fewer journal subscriptions. I was looking through the literature the other day and about half of the articles I needed to access weren't subscribed to by my (large, redbrick) university. I believe this is a shift recognising that academics will just skirt the access via sci-hub as a way for universities to trim their library budgets.
- tokai 5y agoNah is almost definitely because of lower funding for the library. The budgets globally are so squeezed now that publishers are actually lowering their fees for the first time since the industry started.
- kzrdude 5y agoAnd because the publishers are being squeezed from all sides, including from sci-hub and proposed legislation, universities requiring open journals and so on.
- vehemenz 5y agoSame deal here. Some journals are not available, and the ones I have access to are difficult to search because they're spread among multiple aggregation services. This in a top 50 university in the US with ~50,000 students.