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Is there a service where I could pay around $5-$10 a month and get access to all (most) relevant papers? I'm not a scientist, I'm not affiliated with any acade

• claudius 9y ago
  arxiv.org? I’m not sure they take individual donations, though.
  • rspeer 9y ago
    You could possibly give to Cornell Fund for the Library [1] and tell them it's for arXiV. (Don't know if this is true for Cornell, but my own alma mater will accept and confirm arbitrary earmarks, even on small donations. It encourages more donations, and it doesn't actually mess with their priorities because money is fungible.) [1] https://alumni.library.cornell.edu/content/give-library https://alumni.library.cornell.edu/content/give-library
• a3_nm 9y ago
  You can simply use Sci-hub. I don't see any moral argument against it. The research that you want to access was probably entirely done by researchers who don't get a dime of the subscription money of publishers.
  • FabHK 9y ago
    And research, writing, and peer-review was publicly funded most likely anyway.
• btrettel 9y ago
  DeepDyve is the closest legal option I am aware of. https://www.deepdyve.com/ https://www.deepdyve.com/ I tried their service before and did not like that the papers had to be read in the browser. I'd prefer living near a research library.
• Vinnl 9y ago
  Unfortunately, not really. Closest you can get is find out for each article you encounter whether there's also a legal version available elsewhere online (which is increasingly often the case) using tools such as Unpaywall [1] and OAButton [2]. [1] http://unpaywall.org/ http://unpaywall.org/ [2] https://openaccessbutton.org/ https://openaccessbutton.org/