Lmao great find. Academic publishing companies are absolute parasites btw, Libgen did the world a favor

“Ethical and legal objections”. The point in this case is that what’s legal is unethical, and what’s ethical is illegal. Analogous to other situations through history and countries, for example in the USA when it was illegal for black people to sit in certain parts of a bus, or in Germany when marriage with Jewish people was illegal.

As human beings, it’s always important to make the ethical choice.

I typically just copy the title into google with quotes around it. Can also add filetype:pdf.

Edit: Didn’t see title, leaving up anyway.

They will absolutely paywall an article discussing alternatives to paywalling. It’s just good business practise. No introspection on their part.

There is a browser extension called LeanLibrary, which you can install from here: https://www.technologyfromsage.com/products/lean-library-extension/

You can get free access to quite a lot of journals, etc. You just have to set it up to “Lean Library Open” as your institute, or to your University/College, if they are subscribed to it. Makes reading articles and stuff much easier.

This is pretty ironic and tragic