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I had access through my job and through university to Elsevier and other paywalled repositories. I avoid papers found in "ScienceDirect", not because of some m
by JPLeRouzic 9y ago
I had access through my job and through university to Elsevier and other paywalled repositories.
I avoid papers found in "ScienceDirect", not because of some moral position, but I found often that their abstract does no seem so useful for me.
Oftentime there are lot of jargon and it is hard to figure out what is new and what take home points there are. The reader may get the impression that they try hard to oversell their stuff.
I even prefer some free publishers who have a much lower reputation like Indawi.
I have a different but still related problem with IEEE: On every subject it seems there are tons of papers, so it is difficult to appreciate the relative value of each paper.
I have no problem with Nature and some other paywalled publishers.