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This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method t
by ImaCake 5y ago
This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method than going through official channels.
I think it would be marginally quicker for me to access a paper legally if I was on my uni's campus. But I am WFH from the other side of the country and would need to log into the VPN. Sci-hub with one of these solutions would be much quicker!
- simsla 5y agoThere's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, scihub is a lifesaver.
- sampo 5y ago> the authors rarely see anything of this money The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.
- epgui 5y agoIndeed, and even worse: authors pay scientific journals thousands of dollars in publishing fees per article. You want your article to be open access? No problem, that'll be thousands more dollars.
- PeterisP 5y ago> the authors rarely see anything of this money IMHO it's not rarely but never, I'm not aware of any plausible scenario where any author would ever get a single cent of that payment.