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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by upvotinglurker on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:17AM (#17101643)
When an entire department wants a publication on paper, a single copy in a library won't serve that need (since that copy can only be in one place at once). I experienced this in college (before electronic journals were widespread) with professors assigning a reading to an entire class and not providing copies.
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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:37PM (#17105985)
The vast majority of scholarship is unlikely to be in any assigned reading list and the journal will probably be there sitting on the shelf when you want to have a look at it. In cases where there is suddenly high demand for it, then it makes sense to make copies of the article for everyone (or let them download a PDF), but I am happy that I don’t have to print myself everything I want to read.
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