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Would you like to do this kind of innovative use on the corpus of scientific articles? Yeah, you can't without specific partnerships, because that corpus is spr
by a3_nm 6y ago
Would you like to do this kind of innovative use on the corpus of scientific articles? Yeah, you can't without specific partnerships, because that corpus is spread between various publishers and locked behind paywalls. (Who have not contributed a dime towards actually doing the research in question.)
So if you're an academic, please stop working with closed-access venues; and if you're a citizen demand the right to access and redistribute the results of publicly-funded research.
- hprotagonist 6y ago>please stop working with closed-access venues... please write my grant officer and explain to him why my publication costs to the grant just doubled.
- mattkrause 6y agoYou can get a huge number of full-text articles via PubMed/NCBI now. Basically everything funded by the US (and several other) governments needs to end up in PubMed Central within ~12 months of publication. As for the closed-access venues, it's a thorny chicken-and-egg problem. The top journals (Nature/Science/Cell) carry a tremendous cachet; having one on your CV makes you 2-5x more likely to get a tenure-track job/interview. This makes it very hard to opt-out.
- dr_dshiv 6y agoMeh, just use sci-hub and lib gen, it is a way better user experience anyway.
- a3_nm 6y agoYou can't easily download or mirror this dataset because of its copyright status, so they don't solve the problem.