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As announced on twitter<\/a>, I have decided that every time a paywall or an archive blocks me from reading an academic article, I’m going to tweet it with the hashtag #closed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From now on, every time I can’t access an academic article online, I’m going to tweet a link with the tag #closed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 John Levin (@anterotesis) September 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a PhD student and so, through my university, have access to a great number of online journals; certainly far more than the general public has. Yet despite this, and despite this material being the raw material for my work, I still come up against inaccessible articles.<\/p>\n

This is not to criticize my university’s library. On the contrary, I can fully understand why they can’t possibly subscribe to everything, given their finite budget and the price-gouging of publishers. Even Harvard finds the subscription fees untenable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My aim is to show that academic publishing is broken even for academia itself<\/em>. It does not support the work of the academics, librarians, students and researchers who actually produce and curate the content. It follows, I believe, that the best interests of academia are not contrary to those of the larger, global public, of anyone with any interest – but without formal accreditation – in the research carried out in universities. The restrictions in place are for the benefit of the publishers, not the authors, who are denied communication with their peers as well as with any wider audience.<\/p>\n

I hope that these tweets will help expose the everyday failure of the current publishing business. Raising the curtain is the prelude to action. In connection with this, it is worth mentioning the fine article by Jeffrey Salaz “Your Paper has just been outsourced”<\/a> as revealing the production process behind all those expensive journals.<\/p>\n

Finally, I want to make a clear commitment to the growing open access movement that wants to free research and knowledge from its proprietary chains. And in this connection it is worth mentioning the forthcoming OAButton<\/a> project, a tool to track who is being blocked, what is being locked up,\u00a0 and where else it can be obtained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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