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Should Knowledge Be Free?

Medlife Crisis · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Hacker culture & free softwareFree speech, censorship & civil libertiesScientific method & science communication

What it is

Medlife Crisis asks whether academic research should sit behind paywalls, covering publisher profit margins, unpaid reviewers, Sci-Hub and Aaron Swartz. It includes an interview with Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an informative review of the academic publishing business and its monopoly-like structure.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “(recent video on the topic that I liked)”

    Recent video on academic publishing business.

    d0mine, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git”

  2. “I found this discussion really informative”

    Background on how science publishing ended up this way.

    haxiomic, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder”

  3. “You can find a good review of this scheme from below YouTube video[3].”

    Good review of publishing industry monopoly scheme.

    TaXaZ, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “Journal of Functional Programming moving to open access”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sci-hub, paywalls, open access, aaron swartz, journals

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