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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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[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

What we did in the situation was buy one book and then everyone photocopied it and split the cost

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago

That works quite well in my country, where book piracy isn’t as policed, but that’s not an option for me because I can’t access or buy a physical copy.