It is the photo of a person with long dark hair, colourful shirt, and wearing a pirate hat. To their left, the logo of Sci-hub. To their right, that of The Pirate Bay. Over the image float several sentences in white with black border:

knowledge belongs to humanity THEY DON’T EVEN PAY THE PEER REVIEWERS piracy of academic material is morally good and justified your taxes fund this research be gay do crime it’s your to take if you want

  • pulido@lemmings.worldEnglish
    8·
    il y a 22 heures

    The disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.

    Sharing software is a tool to achieve that end.

  • krasny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    29·
    il y a 2 jours

    As a researcher I always make sure that there is at least a preprint available for download, and always try to publish my research in open access journals (which is much more expensive).

    I will be glad if someone pirate my papers, it is a corrupt system in many ways.

    • zenforyen@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      il y a 21 heures

      This is the way.

      In some areas of theory, all the cool stuff happens on https://arxiv.org/ months before they end up being officially published and “paywalled”.

      And in my area (theoretical computer science) we mostly publish short versions in conferences and put the full versions with proofs on arxiv. Of course everyone is downloading and using the latter. The rest is just for the “metrics”.

  • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
    62·
    il y a 3 jours

    Don’t even have to do crime. You can usually email the author, and they will send you a copy, quite legitimately.

    I’ve done it myself a few times.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      il y a 3 jours

      That kind of work flow is ok if you have good access to subscriptions but need one obscure paper. Its not an efficient or reliable work flow for many and largely excludes older papers.

      • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        il y a 2 jours

        It also rarely works for any paper/article older than 20 years.

        Heck, my sister’s asked me to get papers she’s co-authored off of scihub for her, and those have been published within the last 10 years

      • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        il y a 2 jours

        It’s not a one-size fits all, that’s for sure. But I have no subscriptions to anything, and I wouldn’t describe anything I do with “work flow.”

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    il y a 3 jours

    fuck yea crime is bad ass but I can’t load the picture here i have no idea what this post Is about

    • wildflowertea@slrpnk.netEnglish
      21·
      il y a 1 jour

      It is the photo of a person with long dark hair, colourful shirt, and wearing a pirate hat. To their left, the logo of Sci-hub. To their right, that of The Pirate Bay. Over the image float several sentences in white with black border:

      • knowledge belongs to humanity
      • THEY DON’T EVEN PAY THE PEER REVIEWERS
      • piracy of academic material is morally good and justified
      • your taxes fund this research
      • be gay do crime
      • it’s your to take if you want

      (Edited to fix formatting).