Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
by merraksh on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:16PM
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Not sure why you're being downvoted, what you say is similar for applied math. Since a couple of years ago some publishers are asking the LaTeX source and the figures to avoid their own typesetting (save for the journal's LaTeX style).
Journals do publish a lot of work by academicians, many of them funded, in the US, by NSF grants (taxpayer money).
The journals offer something of value because they provide high-quality taxpayer-funded research. The publisher is nothing more than a middleman, who should be cut out of the equation.