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There is another solution - interlibrary loan. While it takes longer, you can often get papers for free or for a flat nominal cost. The local college ILL servic
by dalke 11y ago
There is another solution - interlibrary loan. While it takes longer, you can often get papers for free or for a flat nominal cost. The local college ILL service will make a copy of any article in the world for $10 for the general public. The public library where I used to live would make ILL copies for free.
It's not a great solution, but if you have more time than money, it's a possible alternative.
- mcphage 11y ago> but if you have more time than money, it's a possible alternative Most people in academia have neither.
- dalke 11y agoI think this is meant for humor, as an expression of feeling overworked. That's different than "no time." If someone truly has no time to wait a week or two for an ILL request (I'll assume the local public library offers it as a free service) they they have no time to read the paper, no time to carry out research, and no time to write up the research. How then do they plan on taking on a new project when they have no time?
- RogerL 11y agoNot sure I understand the reasoning here. It's bad to take things for free from scihub, so instead, take things for free from this other source which is much slower. The end result is the same, except the latter impedes research and involves a bunch of busy work for somebody.
- timthorn 11y agoThe central reasoning is that the other, slower source is abiding by the law.