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Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

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[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

My library doesn’t have it unfortunately. I’ve asked for help anyway, perhaps through an inter-library loan. We’ll see.

[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Can’t you ask your university library to order the newest versions?

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

I did ask them to check if they could access it through interlibrary loan. We’ll see. Buying the book seems prohibitive though. It’s highway robbery prices.