wvstolzing@lemmy.mltoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people.English
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2 months agoThat is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
‘Oxford Scholarship Online’ would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn’t get access to books classified under sociology or history.
Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a ‘physical’ library.
It’s either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that ‘private vices’ somehow add up to ‘public virtues’.