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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

    'Oxford Scholarship Online' would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn't get access to books classified under sociology or history.

    Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a 'physical' library.

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