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Making Scholar articles open to public access. Google scholar returned references are mainly to journal articles requiring a fee. This is useless. Science shou
by chmike 17y ago
Making Scholar articles open to public access.
Google scholar returned references are mainly to journal articles requiring a fee. This is useless.
Science should be a collaborative work like wikipedia but with referees (not the narrowed minded one).
- vishaldpatel 17y agoAs far as I know, academic institutions have a pretty large budget for subscribing to journals. If a member (prof, staffer or student) wants access to a certain journal that isn't available, the librarian can arrange for it. So in terms of accessibility to each other's scholarly articles, scientists in academia or larger industries don't suffer from a lack of collaboration. Since this covers most practicing academics, there is little incentive for the scholarly publishing community to change. That said, there are many Open Access Journals out there - I guess you're not alone in your sentiments that science should be collaborative.
- bricestacey 17y agoYou can also visit just about any university and use their resources for free. Most scholarly databases and journals restrict by IP address and many universities don't require people on-campus to authenticate.
- chmike 17y agoWhat if you aren't in a university or if the university is not that rich to have an access to most popular scholar journals ? You are not aware of the luck you have if accessing scholar journals is as simple as that for you.
- ajb 17y agoGoogle does indicate which you can get freely, it's just that for some reason they won't allow you to search for only those. A web site that searched google scholar for you and then returned only the free ones would be really useful...