Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
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Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
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Re: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
#2Papers that meant to be free are now pirated. Nice paradigm shift.
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#3> “Graduate students who want to access an article from the Elsevier system should work with their department chair, professor of the class, or their faculty thesis adviser for assistance.”
Now THAT is chuckle worthy.
Re: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
#4> “I’m all for universal access, but not theft!” tweeted Elsevier’s director of universal access, Alicia Wise
You want everybody to have access, but you don't want them to get it for free.
Wow, so you want the entire world to all pay for the material you were given for free. Hmmmm.
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#5> “Graduate students who want to access an article from the Elsevier system should work with their department chair, professor of the class, or their faculty thesis adviser for assistance.” Now THAT is chuckle worthy.
Imagine wasting some researcher's valuable time on tracking papers for you!
The gall of these publishing companies never ceases to amaze.
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#7> “I’m all for universal access, but not theft!” tweeted Elsevier’s director of universal access, Alicia Wise You want everybody to have access, but you don't want them to get it for free. Wow, so you want the entire world to all pay for the material you were given for free. Hmmmm.
I was at a conference with a number representatives from various publishers. During a discussion about access control I was basically told that publishers want to enforce specific spatio-temporal constraints on who can view (as in read with human eyeballs) their content based on whether a library or individual paid for it. They make the other content industries look positively benign.
Re: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
#8It's just so funny how blatantly parasitic some of these publishing companies are.
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#9While pirating music or movies, one may try justify ones actions, but deep down it feels wrong.
This doesn't even feel wrong. These parasites had it coming.
Re: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
#10Researchers have been (illegally) helping each other out with paper access for years. I used to hang out in the neuroscience group on livejournal years ago, and about half the posts were people asking "Does anyone have access to Foo et al 2012?" and then having it passed along to them by email.