Beyond slingshots: Better tools for negotiating with Goliaths

In negotiations with journal publishers, research institutions try for a “big flip.”

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Pedagogy

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When Alexandra Elbakyan was growing up in Kazakhstan, books, music, and movies were expensive. To access them, she learned how to pirate intellectual property and eventually came to believe that it should be available to all.

After enrolling in graduate school in Russia, Elbakyan began pirating journal articles for herself and other researchers who couldn’t afford

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