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How should citizens do science without access to the literature? It is always amazing how people shrug when artificial gatekeeping with huge profits for gatekeepers and nothing to a few cent for creators is inserted in a system that - at least outside of the US - often is a social service...
...I am also reminded of JSTOR and the sad case of Aaron Schwartz - hopefully the SciHub creator will not be pressured in a similar manner...
Yeah MIT could've handled that differently. Amazing how fast we forget