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While sci-hub undoubtedly plays a role here, in my field the arXiv is really what has obviated the necessity of journal subscriptions. Essentially all math pape
by rotskoff 8y ago
While sci-hub undoubtedly plays a role here, in my field the arXiv is really what has obviated the necessity of journal subscriptions. Essentially all math papers, in both the preprint and post-review form, can be found on the arXiv. I would also emphasize that, with regard to decisions involving journal subscriptions and access, authors generally have very little power. As a researcher, if you have the grant money, you can pay to make your work open access; alternatively, you can restrict yourself to only open access journals (which in some fields, could come at significant opportunity cost).
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- phoe-krk 8y agoarXiv is a very important entity here, correct. It performs a different role though. arXiv positions itself in a place before the journals in the food chain; anyone can upload a paper there, including authors who submit to journals, but all of these papers are "preliminary", as in, "before journal edits". It's questionable if journal edits actually bring any value, but nonetheless, their status is that they're going to be "likely different in some way" than whatever journals publish. SciHub allows free access to the "final" pieces of work, even if they're equivalent (or even equal) to the "non-final" ones available on arXiv. That's a big mental difference.
- thaumasiotes 8y ago>> Essentially all math papers, in both the preprint and post-review form, can be found on the arXiv.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoStill, that's just one field. Sci-Hub covers everything. It's an equal opportunity provider.
- icc97 8y agoProbably worth mentioning Andrej Karpathy's http://arxiv-sanity.com http://arxiv-sanity.com as the flood of papers to read keeps growing
- rocqua 8y agoMost journals still publish a list of titles in the open, so you can 'follow' influential journals, and read the relevant articles on the arxiv.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoGoogle Scholar scrapes arXiv and coalesces the results with journal updates, i.e. it will show the entry for a new journal article with a clearly visible [PDF on arXiv] link when this is available. Google Scholar also scrapes institutional repos (at universities etc.).
- canhascodez 8y agoGoogle Scholar is a service to humanity. However, I do wonder: how comprehensive is it?
- DoctorOetker 8y agois there a similar site for physics papers (getting real tired of the usual new special snowflake melting in the spotlight physics aggregators) also interested in such sites for optics, engineering (or throw whatever at me what you got!)
- beojan 8y agoArXiv does physics too. At least for particle physics, it's all there.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoI thought this was universal knowledge. I'm not requesting another ArXiv, but a site providing a similar quality selection of papers