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You don't have to buy them if you request a copy from the authors. The authors don't make any money when you pay to download a paper from a journal. So they'd h
by jonhendry18 8y ago
You don't have to buy them if you request a copy from the authors. The authors don't make any money when you pay to download a paper from a journal. So they'd have no reason not to send you a pdf.
- apathy 8y agoOther than being obscenely busy. Go away, Elsevier troll
- dang 8y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do that again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- detaro 8y agoAnd wait a few weeks to get replies, and annoy the authors by having to ask repeatedly, ... Yes it works, no it's not a great mechanism to entirely rely on. In comparison, Sci-Hub beats the official journal websites in convenience.
- jonhendry18 8y agoNow we're into matters of convenience and impatience though rather than pleas of poverty. Doesn't quite have the same weight.
- fifnir 8y agoI really dislike when people make arguments along the lines of "it works, why are you complaining". It's not about convenience it's about how some of us things should be. Which is that (at the very least scientific) knowledge should be free and open and accessible and we don't see why a private company should be making huge profits (and even worse influence the direction of science) while they are offering almost nothing in return.
- jonhendry18 8y ago"knowledge should be free and open and accessible " But it is. You just have to email the authors and wait a bit.
- fifnir 8y agoThat's like saying that milk is free because if you visit a farm the farmer will let you milk a glass out of his cows