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We have to solve the research paywall problem legally. We need some sort of disruption but pirating is not the way.
by abnry 4y ago
We have to solve the research paywall problem legally. We need some sort of disruption but pirating is not the way.
- Sakos 4y agoWhy is pirating not the way if the system is making no effort to change it and any change the system would try to make would be solely to the benefit of companies like Elsevier?
- musicale 4y agoUntil we have solid open access mandates, pirating seems to be the way. Google scholar with automatic PDF lookup is of course another part of the way. As a legal stopgap measure, someone could create journal-matic which scrapes the table of contents of each journal issue (or set of conference proceedings) and links it to PDFs from the authors' personal web sites. I note that USENIX has had open access for years. It's disappointing that ACM and IEEE still view their digital libraries as cash cows to be milked to pay for unrelated expenses.
- 0xdeadb00f 4y agoPirating is the way. Because nothing will ever change.