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No, I don’t mean in rich country. First, I believe most papers already list coresspoding author’ email, which one can send a request to for a reprint. And most
by leemailll 8y ago
No, I don’t mean in rich country.
First, I believe most papers already list coresspoding author’ email, which one can send a request to for a reprint. And most people would be happy to send one, and because citation is one of the important metric for how successful and influential one’s research is. Most people is happy to send one.
Second, PI is different from student for this. As a PI one basically already has some connections with people in the field. It’s likely you already know some of the authors, or your friends in the field could help you get a copy.
I don’t mean PIs would find scihub not useful, but PIs likely have other resources to help get a paper.
- apathy 8y agoWhy bother? The only time I have to email other PIs regarding their papers are when protocol steps are missing or when data has not been deposited. And in about half of those instances, it simply reminds me why I love not relying on the “goodwill” of competitors.
- jacquesm 8y ago> First, I believe most papers already list coresspoding author’ email, which one can send a request to for a reprint. Sure. If you have a couple of weeks to spare and you feel that disturbing the author of a paper from whatever they are working on to send you a pdf which you could just as easily fetch for yourself in a few seconds is a good way to spend both your time. PIs tend to find SciHub very useful, even the ones in rich countries where plenty of universities are cutting costs (so sorry if that means cutting access to a critical journal for your field).
- type0 8y ago> And most people would be happy to send one Maybe if you can wait for weeks, but then again that's a maybe. You do realize how critical this is when you try to design your experiment, why even bother by then.