Quote from:
Ghaddar, J.J., Caswell, M. “To go beyond”: towards a decolonial archival praxis. Arch Sci 19, 71–85 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09311-1
Do not let them gatekeep knowledge. Call it what you want.
I use sci-hub because it is quicker and easier than logging into my multiple affiliation’s library accounts, navigating through their janky web portals and search tools, and then finding out I need to switch to a different account/library /catalogue /whatever to read the paper.
As the great Gaben says, piracy is a service issue
Free sharing of information, particularly publicly funded information is not theft. That is all.
Couldn’t a platform like arxiv.org come up with a peer review system so they can be more than just preprints? Make it a full fledged open access platform for fully peer reviewed articles.
Also why are we still stuck in this shitty system where the Elselviers of the world are limiting access to our collective research?
