Gregory's Server
In answer to a tweet by Louie Mantia, Jr. (@Mantia) that asks "What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?", quote tweet by Dr. Holly Witteman (@hwitteman): "That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so."
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The conversation is from six years ago and it has not aged a bit except for some numbers and URLs, go read it: https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289
And a toast to Alexandra Elbakyan, as always! Donate to Sci-Hub if you can.