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Lmao great find. Academic publishing companies are absolute parasites btw, Libgen did the world a favor
“Ethical and legal objections”. The point in this case is that what’s legal is unethical, and what’s ethical is illegal. Analogous to other situations through history and countries, for example in the USA when it was illegal for black people to sit in certain parts of a bus, or in Germany when marriage with Jewish people was illegal.
As human beings, it’s always important to make the ethical choice.
Civil wars were fought over ethical issues that were illegal. Similarly fueled civil wars will be fought in the future.
This is pretty ironic and tragic
yes it is indeed.
They will absolutely paywall an article discussing alternatives to paywalling. It’s just good business practise. No introspection on their part.
I typically just copy the title into google with quotes around it. Can also add filetype:pdf.
Edit: Didn’t see title, leaving up anyway.
There is a browser extension called LeanLibrary, which you can install from here: https://www.technologyfromsage.com/products/lean-library-extension/
You can get free access to quite a lot of journals, etc. You just have to set it up to “Lean Library Open” as your institute, or to your University/College, if they are subscribed to it. Makes reading articles and stuff much easier.
Someone I know recently showed me that extension. I replied to them with “why bother with a browser extension, just paste the DOI into Anna’s Archive and it’ll show up 99% of the time” and showed it to them on their computer. It then showed a message along the lines of “you can access this file, but not here. Go to this site instead”.
They were signed into their university account. As you use that extension yourself, do you know if that’s normal behavior? I’m afraid the extension flagged this person at the campus IT department or something like that
