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The price of knowledge

  • Writer: Rohin
    Rohin
  • Oct 15, 2020
  • 1 min read

Should academic research be behind paywalls? Researchers and peer reviewers earn nothing for their work, and yet academic publishers boast enormous profit margins every year from subscription fees to journals. Especially during a global pandemic, is it right for scientific research to be pay-to-read?


Sci-Hub is an illegal website that offers almost all academic publications for free, created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who I interview in this video. Aaron Swartz, like Alexandra, felt that information should be freely available on the Internet. He committed suicide after being charged with wire fraud, because he illegally downloaded academic articles from JSTOR.


 
 
 

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Oct 13

This topic really resonated with me. Access to research has always felt like a barrier instead of a bridge. When I first started studying, I assumed finding reliable information would be an easy job, but paywalls quickly proved otherwise. It’s disheartening to think that so much valuable knowledge is locked away. Even in academic editing circles, there’s growing concern about how these limits affect students, writers, and the overall progress of education.

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