My mate Anna has a great archive of papers. Look her up some time!
are the papers from annas archive redundant with scihub, or are they from a different source?
Scihub is one of Annas sources iirc.
I’m no scientist but I imagine if you want to cite someone, you need to access their research legally
Holy fuck you people are insufferable. 20 down and flooding my inbox for that? What the fuck lmao
I’m so glad we have the ability to hold back science through bureaucracy.
No one checks for that, and if they did, they’re the ones with the burden of proof
I’m not sure how anyone would ever know
Not really, you need to know (enough of) the content of what you’re citing to make sure that the citation makes sense. The actual info you need to write down for the citation is easily available. How you accessed it is irrelevant.
Ooh, this is actually a more controversial take among academics than you can imagine!
Around week 3 of my course I ask the question “what percentage cut do academics get for published articles”. They are always appalled to learn it is 0% (we get nothing, we are literally paid in exposure).
Below are some other issues with the journal industry as a whole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal_publishing_reform?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Criticism_and_controversies%3Fwprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge?wprov=sfla1
For those who aren’t scientists, no. You don’t need legal access. You don’t necessarily need any access at all (though imo it’s negligent to cite without having read the paper)
I’ve cited enough off just expanded abstracts to say, how would they even know? It’s probably better than what I did, lol.
I read the source of my citations, but nowhere am I required to cite the citations of my source. If you don’t wanna “try” to access my resources… well, that sounds like a “you thing”. Good luck, cause my paper remains
Paywalling knowledge is the same as bypassing it
> says something really dumb and bad
> angry edit that people call out their smelly mouth filled with corn
It’s everyone’s fault but your own.
20 down
Have another one! Knowledge (and doing research) should be free and not only for people who can pay for it. Look up how ridiculously expensive and complicated it is to access those publications.
You clearly are not :)
well fuck. there go those whitepapers i wrote about, i really don’t remember, and cited articles i’d copied off the whatsit database years before before i’d lost access through the university
The fact that public funds go to research only for everything that those funds becoming privatized is a fucking crime.
No grant should be given to any research if the results aren’t published on an open journal.
No grant should be given if any marketable discovery becomes privatized
I am still fucking pissed that most countries used public funds to develop a covid vaccine then gifted them to private for profit corporation. Same for basically every medical development.
Many countries’ funding agencies require open access publications for work based on their funding. However, open access fees are insanely high in some journals (e.g. around $12k for the higher impact factor Nature journals)…
that’s also bullshit, I reviewed papers for publication. it’s free labour, hosting a pdf is nearly free.
there’s no justification.
Oh yeah, those price tags are insane. They’re making crazy profits of public money thanks to hiring schemes based on impact factors :/
We need nationally funded journals that are free for all people to read and mandate publication through them.
I like the general direction of that idea. But honestly, not sure if this should be national with all the political pressure and censorship that could come from that. With how international scientific research is, perhaps the UN or a newly formed international organisation could oversee such journals.
I avoided commenting on this because this makes me very angry. What they did to that boy was fucking disgusting.
You can blame Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad for creating the entire beast. He is literally to blame for all of it.
Urgh…. My fucking god, that made me so angry.
I still can’t read it without tearing up
This is why i always place all important info in Supplementary Information which is almost always free of charge. except on sciencedirect. fuck them
Science not so direct
Directly into their vault
Fuck elsevier.
Founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, yes, that Ghislaine Maxwell.
I’ve heard of a lot of scientists using the dark web just to access research articles “illegally” lol
If you mean Sci-hub, then yeah that’s completely normal. I’ve used Sci-hub to access my own article once when I had lost access to the published version.
“the dark web” is police fascist fearmongering for tech that lets people access the internet from censored countries
Counterpoint: it sounds super cool
The dark web is a specific section of the *deep web that can be accessed only using specific software configurations or authorizations
The name make sense because it’s in fact hidden, dark and makes quite a bit of sense, the problem is that dark things do make people quite a bit scared and that was then weaponized
And i say that because i don’t want to go against whatever you said but to expand on the (in my opinion, too) simplistic view you shared
*the deep web is that huge chunk of the internet that is not indexed by any search engine
there are onion search engines and directories, and “the dark web” refers to ANY onion site
I am sure i need to use the TOR network to use an onion search engine
Edit: apparently what i said is wrong
I am sure I need the WWW network to use a search engine
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Thanks for the correction! I meant deep web but got the both mixed up.
I mean, it is definitely not just that
Do your part and publish only on journals listed on doaj
Doaj?
This one: https://doaj.org/
Oh sick!
Going open access is great, and that’s what I do, but it has to be said a lot of grants do NOT pay for open access publications, and diamond open access (free for authors and readers) is quite rare and you can wait eternity to get published.
So, it has to be paid straight out of personal finances.
There are many journals without any cost for publication. Doaj lists them as diamond-tier open access
I did mention them. Not always plenty in a particular subject area, often takes a lot of time to get published.
Then upload paper to SciHub and the Internet Archive
I see capitalism is going as well for the scientific community as it is for the rest of us.
closed access publications are still the majority, but at least in my field there is practically always a preprint available and the tendency to migrate to open access journals is there. i hope it will stay
Bro but a lot of the big name guys made up a little citation here and a little citation there. Just publish on the lancet or nature. They won’t know any better for decades. Maybe by the time people find out you’ve already pined for the fjords.
Best case scenario, in 1.5 billion years it won’t matter anyway. Use AI and clone some images, little science bro. It’s all just vibes.
Use reader mode if your browser or app has that. It works in Voyager on iOS.
Reader mode strips JavaScript out so it works for most articles.
ublock origin dropper click anything that bothers you
That doesn’t just give you access to stuff
