Why are you entitled to it? (pro-tip: you aren't).
But, even though the owners of said material have no obligation whatsoever to give it to you for free, you STILL have access to all of it because you live in the wondrous digitally connected world where you can get it illegally easily. And you're STIL complaining.
>Why are you entitled to it? (pro-tip: you aren't).
Public funding comes from tax dollars, my brainlet friend.
To be fair, I need to know what country you're from and what uni you go to. If the government gives money to a for-profit university (which means it's just a company), then you should be mad at the government, not the company.
If you go to a real non-profit school running on government money then you have a case. You could debate whether they need the money from those papers to stay afloat, but I would agree more with you in that case.
It's kikes OP, c'mon.
Kikes run the journals, websites and organizations behind all of this sort of kikery. Further, yes, kikes are intelligent and disproportionately populate academia and the sciences-publishing crowd. More fundamental than the money, , is the kikes.
>If the government gives money to a for-profit university (which means it's just a company), then you should be mad at the government, not the company.
Yeah, but you're still entitled to it.
OP didn't say who he was blaming for the situation.
No, in that case you aren't entitled to it at all.
99.9% of people couldn't understand a science article even if it was made freely available to them. The point of journal paywalls is to maintain the rigorous peer review process which requires substantial time, effort, resources, and infrastructure. I'm not a fan of the paywall, but if you're an active academic you already have free access to the articles you want anyways.
The better question is why isn't there more incentive for researchers to translate their esoteric work for a more general audience? TED Talks were supposed to be that but now they're just meams.
>The point of journal paywalls is to maintain the rigorous peer review process
Which we ll know that is definitely not full of gaping holes and crippling misinformation.
>The point of journal paywalls is to maintain the rigorous peer review process which requires substantial time, effort, resources, and infrastructure
and yet reviewers aren't paid for their work
Peer review is done free of charge you fucking retard.