Recent and related:<p><i>Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154266" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154266</a> - May 2021 (52 comments)
A brief introduction to Sci-Hub for developers:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/nh5dbu/a_brief_introduction_to_scihub_for_developers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/nh5dbu/a_brief_intr...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/jb1hts/p2p_free_library_help_build_humanitys_free/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/jb1hts/p2p_free_lib...</a>
This case depicts the global profit-pandemic. Profit before all, profit before people. People share the cost, companies share the profit.<p>This model will break. A treshold is reached, scientists revolt.<p>A similar case, recently, in Europe popped up in football / soccer. Supporters and players defy the creation of a Superleague focused on higher profits for a select few.<p>Profit-seeking eats the world. A healthy regulation is needed. People first, profit next would be a sustainable trade-off.
I find the arguments against Elsivier weak:<p>- authors can publish in any journal they choose, including open access journals<p>- author choose to publish in Elsivier journals because of the prestige (hence Elsiviers curation and impact factor is what people pay for)<p>- so basically authors want to publish in prestigious journals, but don’t want to pay for it, but aren’t willing to sidestep those same journals and publish in open access journals<p>Seems like the problem is not Elsivier but the institutions that demand they publish in high impact journals?
can someone explain to me why these multi billion dollar scientific publishing companies exist anyway? scientists write the papers and other scientists do the peer review, what does the company do? do they have a group of scientists on payroll to provide "high quality peer review" or something? what is the business model here?
Interesting fact about Mrs. Elbakyan is that she was Putin and Crimea annexy supporter. Which she was aggressively bullied for in russian academia (which is majorly liberal) during 2017. She closed SciHub access from Russia whichafeter saying: "Boil in your shit by yourself".<p>She had a honor of a parasitic insect being called by her name not much longer after.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiogramma_elbakyanae" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiogramma_elbakyanae</a>