This is a longish article revisiting an issue we've covered on numerous occasions here: the broken system of academic publishing. This is a great line: "These days, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, and the like are basically giant operations that proofread, format, and store PDFs. That's not nothing, but it's pretty close to nothing." One interesting note: the pattern of use of the (pirate site) SciHub matches the pattern of researchers with the best access to legitimate sources. "Why would researchers resort to piracy when they have legitimate access themselves? Maybe because journals' interfaces are so clunky and annoying that it's faster to go straight to SciHub... for-profit publishing only 'works' because people find ways to circumvent it."
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