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To your point, the flip side as a consumer of academic white papers, is where can I go to get everything in an individual hobbyist subscription pricing? I want
by Terretta 6y ago
To your point, the flip side as a consumer of academic white papers, is where can I go to get everything in an individual hobbyist subscription pricing?
I want one subscription for all of gate-kept STEM (or maybe one each for tech, for engineering and math, and one for science and medicine), then be able to just link and read as though using Zotero, Mendeley, or Papers but with access to all the things.
As a corporation, journal subscriptions are nominal relative to, say, Gartner. For academics, you're covered in budgets. But for oneself as an individual, I cannot find a reasonable source.
- periheli0n 6y agoYou can always email the authors for a copy. Most will be happy to share. Also, preprints are getting ever more common. Manuscripts get uploaded to preprint servers like Arxiv.org before being peer reviewed, and usually updated with the peer reviewed version once accepted in a subscription journal.
- OmicronCeti 6y agoSome journals are trying to capture that space too, many are developing their own pre-print servers for who knows what reason.
- OmicronCeti 6y ago>is where can I go to get everything in an individual hobbyist subscription pricing? No. Many of the journals listed will have some OA papers, while other papers will be paywalled. There are few journals (like Nature) that are entirely free to read sadly. https://sci-hub.ee/ https://sci-hub.ee/ is the way. Just give it a DOI and you're good to go.
- input_sh 6y agoI feel no shame in using Sci-Hub and neither should you. Peer reviewers aren't paid with your money, and neither are the writers. You're only paying the middlemen with the subscription or without it. Fuck them. If it's not on Sci-Hub (happened to me only once), email the author and upload it there afterwards.