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Technically, the authors are allowed to send you copies if you contact them directly. Can't we outsource that to a service so authors can work on more importan
by panpanna 7y ago
Technically, the authors are allowed to send you copies if you contact them directly.
Can't we outsource that to a service so authors can work on more important stuff?
- yesenadam 7y agoThis site already does a very good job of that: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ (I prefer it to SciHub as you can search by keyword or author, or browse issues of journals etc, but I think the same papers are available–almost everything.)
- SpelingBeeChamp 7y agoWhat always gets me searching for material there is the apparent inability to constrain a search to (a) specific years, and/or (b) specific journals. Is there a way to do that?
- yesenadam 7y agohmm..I can't see how to do that, no. Library Genesis has a discussion forum, and it seems like those search functions wouldn't be hard to add. So get involved!
- _Wintermute 7y agoThat's basically what ResearchGate tried to do, you upload your pdfs and then get an email saying "Joe Bloggs has requested your article", you can then click accept and they get sent a download link for your paper. Unfortunately they tried turning it into a linkedin and stackoverflow for scientists and it seems like a bit of a mess.
- killjoywashere 7y agoAnd now it's 20 clicks to get that article Free some serious dark anti-patterns