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I simply log in my university VPN... So in your country does everybody get a taxpayer-sponsored university VPN for life? Or are you speaking from the highly pr
by mechanical_fish 15y ago
I simply log in my university VPN...
So in your country does everybody get a taxpayer-sponsored university VPN for life? Or are you speaking from the highly privileged position of "current university student in a well-funded school?"
In any case, it shows a tremendous impoverishment of imagination to claim that Google Scholar is equivalent to an actual free market in research. I want the footnotes in publication A to be directly hyperlinked to the relevant sections of their associated references. Otherwise we remain in the position where random TV shows on Wikipedia have better public documentation than our taxpayer-funded research.
I'll put your 95% assertion to the test and report back.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoPaper #1: field: applied physics Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 1095 (2000) Result: no free link on Scholar. I can buy a copy for $29, or there's a new service called "Deepdyve" that will "rent" me a 24-hour glimpse at the paper for $2, no printing allowed. Papers 2 to 20ish: works by the late Judah Folkman, field: cancer research Here we have better luck; maybe 50% of the (very well-known) works on the first two pages of this search have free PDFs: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=J+folkman&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C48&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=J+folkman&... Still not feeling the 95%, though. Of course, I may not have worked in the right fields. This is a big reason why I switched to software, after all.
- Vivtek 15y agoWell, physics is an exception. The preprints at arxiv.org are free and contain essentially everything. Medicine, though - that's a problem.