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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I was working on my PhD. I stopped accessing papers from the publishers’ website. Each download incurs cost to the university. Instead I used sci-hub practically all the time. These publishers are the leeches.

[–] pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

til: downloading paper incurs cost to the contributors, this system is absolutely sickening.