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Consistently publish your research in cheaper academic journals, and encourage your peers to do the same. Refuse to publish in any venue you judge to be too expensive.Consistently read and cite papers in cheaper academic journals, and encourage your peers to do the same. (Don’t ignore papers just because they’re published in expensive journals, but do make a conscious effort to read papers in lower-cost venues.)

It’s complicated.Part of the reason Sci-Hub exists is that the owner of many science journals, Elsevier, refuses to pay the people who publish papers in their journals, but also claim copyright on those papers, and sue the authors of the papers for doing things like putting their own research on their own Web sites.Elsevier, which made about $2 billion last year, does not pay for articles, does not pay peer reviewers, but takes research paid for by government grants and sticks it behind paywalls or in outrageously expensive journals. They’re making billions of dollars from other people’s work, which they get for free (and which is often paid for by the taxpayer), and charge predatory prices to access it.This problem has become so bad that a lot of universities are canceling their subscriptions to Elsevier journals, and last year LSU sued Elsevier for breach of contract. (The university paid Elsevier $1.65 million per year for online access to its electronic journals. Elsevier demanded another $165,000 per year in subscription fees for the university’s college of veterinary medicine, even though the $1.65 million/year covered all the university’s students, including their veterinary students.)To compare it to movie pirating:When a studio makes a movie, they pay the writers. They pay the actors. They pay the editors, the cinematographers, the directors, the effects technicians, and so on. Then they charge the audience to see the movie. If you see the movie without paying, you’re taking money the studio uses to pay its writers and actors and directors and all the other people who make the movie happen.If Elsevier made movies, they would demand that the writers, the directors, and the actors work for free. They would refuse to pay the cameramen, the editors, the set designers, and the effects technicians, because paying them would destroy the artistic integrity of the movie.The only things they would pay for are film and advertising. They would charge $800 for a movie ticket (or $36 per hour to stream a movie online), and keep all the profits. An actor or a director who talked about a movie at a convention or on a talk show would be sued. College students wouldn’t be charged to see movies, as long as the university agreed to pay $1,650,000.00 per year for a student license.

To remove this problem is a tough task because it is a new fad among all the Indians and can be said as their new hobby. Showing off simply is bragging about your achievements, possessions, wealth, skills etc. To avoid bragging and showing off, you can do following things:1. Keep yourself away from social media. It is a medium on which more than half of India spend their 70-80% of the day. And when someone spend so much time on such trifle mediums, they are bound to post every minute activity that they do. It reinforces a thought in your mind to have a life like them and you reach out of your financial confines to satiate a short-term pleasure.2. Read great personalities. Read how they became successful and how down to earth they are after becoming successful. Learn from great people, learn from their behavior, their actions as to how they keep themselves away from whims of showing off. It will slowly creep into your behavior.3. Maintain an income/expense journal. Very often, a small fancy blow away our thoughts and we strongly feel to purchase that or to have that. Once you maintain an income/expense journal, you will have a greater idea of where you should spend and where you should not.4. Speak less. This will help you a lot. Answer precisely, accurately and to the point. At times, a lot of people take you to a roller coaster ride to swing by their own achievements to come to the actual answer. Don't do that. Speak less and you will have a peaceful life.5. Stop Comparing. This is a psychological dilemma which traps every youngster like us. Every one has a different destiny, different set of goals, different circumstances. Stop generalizing and comparing without any strong base. The best comparison you can make is of yourself with your former-self.