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"Having licensed materials behind a paywall creates lots of headaches for student researchers. But what's really discouraging is to think that by making them inaccessible to anyone who isn't in the club, we are making the very idea of scholarship irrelevant except for school purposes. Open access is more than a convenience for scholars whose libraries can't afford to buy or license everything they need. It's the only way to consistently inject researched findings into public discourse about issues. And frankly, we all could use a little more of that."