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Cunoașterea între bun public și logica profitului: rolul pirateriei în dezvoltarea cercetării științifice din România postcomunistă
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Knowledge Between Public Good and the Logic of Profit: The Role of Piracy in the Development of Scientific Research in Post-communist Romania
Abstract: The significant increase in the costs of accessing scholarly resources as a result of what many authors have termed the “oligopolization of the academic market” means that despite the overabundance of scholarly resources and simplified access in the context of the digital revolution, access to scholarly literature is severely restricted for financial reasons. In these circumstances, piracy appears to be a weapon of the weak and a movement that tilts the balance towards individuals with less access to academic resources. In the case of Romania, piracy is a practice to which many academics have resorted, which has contributed significantly to improving the gap in access to scientific literature in relation to the major Western academic centers. This article briefly outlines the process of commoditization of scholarly publishing and examines the role of academic piracy in bridging the gap in access to scholarly literature and the reasons why researchers resort to it.
Keywords: Piracy, oligopol, research, Open Access, semi-periphery.
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