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well, most of that money goes to the publishers not to the researchers, so...
by gekoxyz 3y ago
well, most of that money goes to the publishers not to the researchers, so...
- ebiester 3y agoThe researchers get none of the money. Quick tip: You can often email a researcher and they will sometimes send a pre-print version of the article if you don't have access. Nobody is making money off this. Other than public scholars, academic books rarely make enough to even consider it minimum wage.
- kergonath 3y ago> You can often email a researcher and they will sometimes send a pre-print version of the article if you don't have access. Most of us would send the final published version with proper formatting. It’s not even subversive, it’s something included in the non-commercial uses of the license agreements. Here’s Elsevier, but the others are similar: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright . TL;DR: sending pdfs is perfectly ok; what they don’t want is uploading them to servers (which is perfectly ok morally but not so legally (yet)).