Seems like from the article a good chunk of the traffic is from students who don’t want to be taken advantage of by predatory publishing companies who’ve jacked up their textbook prices… won’t somebody think of the poor companies.
I finished my thesis theoretical part thanks to Libgen. My uni didn’t have all the accesses I required to journals etc. even my own professors told us to sail the high seas to get their own papers since they didn’t earn anything by publishing in journals and the prices were stupid
Yeah, constantly calling it the “Most notorious” illegal shadow library won’t make it not be the best resource students and teachers and book writers themselves have against the predatory and greedy behavior of publishers.
Seems like from the article a good chunk of the traffic is from students who don’t want to be taken advantage of by predatory publishing companies who’ve jacked up their textbook prices… won’t somebody think of the poor companies.
I finished my thesis theoretical part thanks to Libgen. My uni didn’t have all the accesses I required to journals etc. even my own professors told us to sail the high seas to get their own papers since they didn’t earn anything by publishing in journals and the prices were stupid
Yeah, constantly calling it the “Most notorious” illegal shadow library won’t make it not be the best resource students and teachers and book writers themselves have against the predatory and greedy behavior of publishers.
My thoughts exactly.
The ideal solution here is to get courses and professors to switch away from the predatory publishing companies to other open/accessible options.
We have a page on the wiki about it, but haven’t gotten around to collecting more data for it: https://ubcwiki.ca/academics/classes/textbooks.html
Hopefully in the next week or so, depending on whoever gets time for it