How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
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How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
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#2As a native English speaker, I take “one-woman show” to mean it’s just her.
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#3As a native English speaker, I take “one-woman show” to mean it’s just her.
Probably she didn't say "show" in russian though. Some things are getting lost in translation here.
She laments that The Chronicle doesn't credit her as doing actual work by describing what she does as a "show" instead. (implying that a male is doing the actual devops work behind the scenes)
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#4Is there a sort of single sign on reasonably priced service that aggregates the many publishers of government funded papers in one place?
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#5As a native English speaker, I take “one-woman show” to mean it’s just her.
Yes, it sounds like she is misunderstanding it in this case. "One-woman show" doesn't imply that it's just a facade, fake project (which she seems to take from "show"), it's just an idiom to say it's something that one person does (not a team).
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#6Is there a sort of single sign on reasonably priced service that aggregates the many publishers of government funded papers in one place?
No
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#7Having worked as a researcher all my life in academia and the industry, I can only support Sci-Hub. Publishing as it works currently is an incredibly time consuming and expensive process funneling tremendous amounts of tax money into the pocḱets of publishers.
To some extent the whole situation reminds me of the video and music content piracy era in the early 2000s. I hope there will be an equivalent of Apple Music/Spotify/Netflix for scientific papers in the near future.
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#8Is there a sort of single sign on reasonably priced service that aggregates the many publishers of government funded papers in one place?
No
If that's the case, my suspicion is this may continue happening until a 'Netflix of scientific papers' appears. Even with Sci-Hub down it's likely someone else will replicate it.
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#9Both of these complaints are very superficial given how positive the article actually is.
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#10As a native English speaker, I take “one-woman show” to mean it’s just her.
Yes, it sounds like she is misunderstanding it in this case. "One-woman show" doesn't imply that it's just a facade, fake project (which she seems to take from "show"), it's just an idiom to say it's something that one person does (not a team).
And usually has positive connotations.
Most of the time you use the "one-woman show" idiom is when you are impressed that one person does this by themselves.