Four months behind the times, I found this tale of an academic pirate interesting.
Perhaps we need to profile her for our pirate displays on September 19?
Four months behind the times, I found this tale of an academic pirate interesting.
Perhaps we need to profile her for our pirate displays on September 19?
There’s been quite a bit of discussion, including this fairly recent one about librarians researching Sci-Hub: Letter from Publishers’ Group Adds to Debate over Sci-Hub and Librarians Who Study It (Inside Higher Ed) http://bit.ly/2aMXf1X
Eep. Here’s hoping I haven’t drawn the publishers’ ire with my suggestion of profiling her in a display!
“The larger issue here is that the academic publishing model has become unsustainable.” Exactly! And it’s not looking like it’s going to improve any time soon. I am compelled to think of lemmings at this point.
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