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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
The price of many academic journal articles is insane, and not many people/institutions outside of the Western countries can even afford such fees.
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Not even the major universities in the United States can afford the fees.
I don't remember if it was
Library Genesis or
Elsevier that claimed the user base for
Library Genesis was academics in the United States, and not third world students, which is the target demographic. Either way, more than one researcher at a Big Ten University has publicly admitted to going to Library Genesis, when their library didn't have the material, because their research budget couldn't cover the US$30+ per article that Elsevier was charging at the time.
But it isn't just research papers that are too expensive. I've come across more than one highly respected professor, casually requesting a book for their university library, only to have it denied, because it was too expensive. Turns out that the US$500 that the prof thought was the hard copy price, was the price of the ebook. The hard copy was a multiple of that price.
Amber