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Should Knowledge Be Free?
Medlife Crisis
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.
HN recommends it as an informative review of the academic publishing business and its monopoly-like structure.
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