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Scientific publishing is a predatory and highly profitanle business. Publishers like and shovel public research money behind private paywalls, locking away scientific advances from less priviledged scientists and students, especially (but not exclusively) from those of the global South. As knowledge is power, this criminal industry has to be called out for ehat it is: a neo-colonial bully that is highly responsible for locking in global power structures.
Luckily, there's a way to enter those thugs' walled gardens:
sci-hub.st/

The site allows to circumvent journals' paywalls by entering the doi or article-URL.

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sci-hub.stSci-Hub: common ownership of the means of production,<br>free access to articles of consumptionSci-Hub website. Get free access to academic journals. Download research papers for free from ScienceDirect, IEEE, Wiley, Springer, Nature and others

Sci-Hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan will receive the prestigeous Electric Frontiers Foundation's EFF Award 2023 - this is a big slap in the face that this shameful industry deserves and a big recognition for Alexandra's achievements and courageous work:
torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alex

Former award winners include Linus Torvalds, Vint Cerf and Chelsea Manning .

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TF PublishingSci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific KnowledgeBy Ernesto Van der Sar