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lsh on March 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

Unless the article has been published as open access under a CC-BY (or similar) licence, it's not open access, please don't confuse the two.

I agree with you in spirit - tax payer funded research outputs should be publicly available - but this is what got Aaron Swartz: it is unlawful.

Mononokay on March 21, 2018 [–]

I never said the research was open-access, I said it allowed open-access to research. There's a difference, and although it's just positioning, it makes quite a difference in the meaning of a sentence.

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