[AGL] report from the front lines

[Michael Eisenstadt]

On 4/3/2020 1:08 PM, Frances Morey wrote:
> The unavailability of journals and new ideas on internet is one of the 
> guarded features of academia as institutional protection for their 
> bailiwick.
/Au contraire/. A great many journals are available free on JSTOR 
(=journal storage) which is provided free by the Austin Public Library, 
perhaps also by the Corpus Christi public library. Recent issues are all 
journals are all available but behind paywalls so you have to pay a lot 
of money for a paper that often turns out to be worthless. If you're a 
tenured professor your university picks up the bill for papers behind 
paywalls.

However, there is a work around for paywalls. A pirate site in 
Khazakistan lets you through many paywalls if you can find the DOI 
number for the particular paper you want to read listed. Hie yourself 
over to www.sci-hub.tw having copied the DOI number. Imput the DOI in 
the window and presto shazam, there's the paper for download. The pirate 
site is run by a Russian woman. DOI stands for digital object 
identification/

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