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I may be naive here, but why not search and download the article's preprint from arXiv? Would it be that much different from the final paper? Why would you need
by sumanthvepa 11y ago
I may be naive here, but why not search and download the article's preprint from arXiv? Would it be that much different from the final paper? Why would you need to pirate at all?
- jboynyc 11y agoNot all disciplines use arXiv -- far from it. Especially in the humanities and social sciences, there isn't really anything comparable to arXiv. But you are right, preprints are not all that different from published papers, as this recent analysis confirmed: http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05363 http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05363 [edited to add:] I suppose you could look at the data (https://blog.datadryad.org/2016/04/28/sci-hub-stories/ https://blog.datadryad.org/2016/04/28/sci-hub-stories/) and see what proportion of requested DOIs have a preprint version in the arXiv. I suspect it's rather small.
- _Wintermute 11y agoBecause most papers are not on arXiv.