Chiming in to agree with others: the frustrating thing about Elsevier and other paid journals is that they don't seem to provide any service at all. They don't pay the authors of the papers, they don't pay the peer reviewers, they don't offer any kind of verification. As far as I can tell, the only things they do are proofreading and typesetting, which are honestly the sorts of thing that could be handled by a grad student, if not actually a computer program (and it already is: most typesetting is done by the author(s) with LaTeX). These outrageous subscription fees are paying for nothing.
This is why, even though most people eventually age out of the mindset where they think pirating movies and games is OK, these same people see nothing wrong with Sci-Hub. Elsevier is a useless middleman-slash-parasite, and nothing of value will be lost when it eventually disappears. The research community will shrug and mostly continue along like it always has.
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Date: 2018-12-17 01:26 am (UTC)This is why, even though most people eventually age out of the mindset where they think pirating movies and games is OK, these same people see nothing wrong with Sci-Hub. Elsevier is a useless middleman-slash-parasite, and nothing of value will be lost when it eventually disappears. The research community will shrug and mostly continue along like it always has.