Link-a-dink: Yiddish film lives again. Academic publishing piracy - welcome?
Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback
A Yiddish-language feature made with nonprofessional actors on the streets of Brooklyn? Joshua Z. Weinstein’s “Menashe” is not the product of a time machine but the belated rebirth of a venerable tradition
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Ruben Niborski plays the son of a widower embroiled in a custody battle in “Menashe,” directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein.
A pirating service for academic journal articles could bring down the whole establishment
The subscription fees charged by academic publishers have risen so high in recent years that even wealthy American universities have said they can’t afford them. When Harvard Library reported its subscription costs had reached $3.5 million per year in a 2012 memo, for example, it said the fees were “fiscally unsustainable,” and the university asked its faculty to stop publishing research in journals that keep articles behind paywalls.
But regardless of where Harvard researchers have published their work since then, it’s likely that all of it is currently available for free on Sci-Hub, a rogue pirating service for academic research. According to a new study, Sci-Hub contains 68.9% of all academic research. More to the point: 85.2% of all papers originally published behind paywalls are available on the website for free. And even if a given article isn’t already available in Sci-Hub’s repository, the site can quickly fetch it using donated credentials for services like JSTOR, Elsevier, and Sage.
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A Yiddish-language feature made with nonprofessional actors on the streets of Brooklyn? Joshua Z. Weinstein’s “Menashe” is not the product of a time machine but the belated rebirth of a venerable tradition
(Photo caption)
Ruben Niborski plays the son of a widower embroiled in a custody battle in “Menashe,” directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein.
A pirating service for academic journal articles could bring down the whole establishment
The subscription fees charged by academic publishers have risen so high in recent years that even wealthy American universities have said they can’t afford them. When Harvard Library reported its subscription costs had reached $3.5 million per year in a 2012 memo, for example, it said the fees were “fiscally unsustainable,” and the university asked its faculty to stop publishing research in journals that keep articles behind paywalls.
But regardless of where Harvard researchers have published their work since then, it’s likely that all of it is currently available for free on Sci-Hub, a rogue pirating service for academic research. According to a new study, Sci-Hub contains 68.9% of all academic research. More to the point: 85.2% of all papers originally published behind paywalls are available on the website for free. And even if a given article isn’t already available in Sci-Hub’s repository, the site can quickly fetch it using donated credentials for services like JSTOR, Elsevier, and Sage.
This entry was originally posted at http://thnidu.dreamwidth.org/1641407.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID or your Dreamwidth ID.
comments there so far.