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posthooliganism:

2018 is the year we forcibly collectivize JSTOR

morally correct but historically incorrect, since as a matter of fact scihub was founded in 2011

until scihub has articles on the intersection of Brecht, feminist theory and chinese operas ill be waiting outside jstor’s offices with a molotov cocktail in one hand and my burning desire to read about obscure theatrical history in the other

hi can somebody please translate this into regular street english for me please? i feel like im having a stroke reading this

JSTOR is a commercial archive of scholarly papers, and has many (though not all) scientific journals. Professors (mostly, but in principle it could be anyone) of various disciplines (e.g. Brecht, feminist theory, chinese operas, organic chemistry) write these papers, which is sort of like posting, except it takes much longer because moderation is much stricter, and if you don’t get enough reblogs you die. If you have a university affiliation as student or faculty, you probably have access to a JSTOR subscription. 

If you don’t, you can read most of their articles online. This is a policy that JSTOR adopted after bad press and the apprearance of free alternatives -  young activist Aaron Swartz downloaded their entire archive for it to be freely distributed to the internet (much as you would download a movie), for which they tried to throw the book at him, leading to his suicide. JSTOR was angry about this because it gets money by charging people (mostly universities) to view its content.

Sci-hub is a site that breaks (some countries’) copyright laws to make files freely available, like Pirate Bay but for science and the humanities. A young scholar, Alexandra Elkabyan, set it up on many of the same principles that inspired Swartz - that scientific findings and scholarship should be publicly available. Just about everything is on SciHub, because there are always people motivated to make the findings of their fields available, just like there’s always someone who wants to distribute the latest Game of Thrones right after it airs, even though HBO doesn’t like this.

The easiest way to use scihub is to use Google Scholar, which is Google for scholarly papers like these, to search for subjects you are interested in, and then to paste in the title or  more reliably DOI number (which is a purely technical number that most papers have, sort of like their social security number) into scihub, which will typically get you the pdf of the paper. There’s also Book4You, which is similar, but for books.

Most of the papers you find through this will not be this will not be accessible from common language, which is partially a result of scholars needing specialized terms for new ideas they’ve developed, partially because of how any group of people starts using words distinctly, and partially because they’re afraid that other people will think they’re stupid. But reading a wikipedia page on the subject will often make things a little (if not always a lot) clearer.

(Hopefully this answer was itself written clearly!)

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