Ada PalmerJul 24, 2023
Feeling of finally finding a citation I've been looking for for SEVEN YEARS! Hunting down a thing I heard about in a lecture 20+ years ago from a historian now, alas, no longer with us. But I found it! And now I'm so giddy I can't think about anything else! (No I won't say what it was -- spoilers)
Show threadClifton Royston

@adapalmer

Does it seem to you it's gotten a lot harder to find academic references online than it was 10 years ago? More recently I've found attempts to search things often end up at one or another paywall, university or publisher, without enough details to be sure paying would get me the thing I'm trying to find.

Jul 24, 2023 at 7:14pmWeb
Show threadAda PalmerAug 3, 2023
@CliftonR Since my university affiliation speed routes me through paywalls without alerting me to them, I don’t know. Which is itself a symptom of a problem: those with academic privilege edit & publish most of these things but are actively prevented from noticing how hard they are for people without that privilege to access.
Show threadClifton RoystonAug 5, 2023

@adapalmer

Since I am privileged along so many dimensions, I'm not used to thinking of myself as *not* privileged, but this is one that I hadn't considered.