From: Richard <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 08:33:39 -0500 it comes down to a privileged class wanting to retain their privilege: in this case, choosing to preserve tenure and appointments for an elite by submitting their work to prestige journals. Scihub lets them have their cake and eat it- they can continue to submit to the same publishers and have their consciences salves by pretending to be engaged in some bizarre form of social justice > On Mar 3, 2016, at 6:43 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:30:38 +0000 > >> What am I missing? Do researchers not realize their agency? > > I think they do, but like all agents, the range of choices available > to them is limited. Junior faculty technically have the option of > placing their work wherever they want, but if they want to get tenure, > their realistic options are more limited and they may have to publish > in a journal that requires them to give up their copyright. > Researchers (depending on the field) may have extremely limited > options when it comes to funding sources — so if, for example, the > National Institutes of Health says that accepting a grant from them > means accepting certain kinds of reuse licensing on the resulting > publication, the real-world impact on researcher’s choicemaking is > significant. And so forth. No one’s agency is absolute. Not only do we > all get to make choices, but we’re also very often forced to make > choices. > > --- > Rick Anderson > Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication > Marriott Library, University of Utah > [log in to unmask]