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I just came here to say that accessing papers is a pain in the butt when you're not an academic. I've not been near an university in the last decade (I hated my

I just came here to say that accessing papers is a pain in the butt when you're not an academic. I've not been near an university in the last decade (I hated my time there as a student, I leave them alone now), but I need access to some papers for my personal projects. I resort to begging people in the academic field to send me papers, you can't pay 45€ a paper you don't even know if it will be useful, I read 10s of them. And, even worse, this high price doesn't even pays the authors. A music album costs 10€ and the author gets all his money out of it plus you can listen to it on youtube to decide before buying. Academics tend to cite papers for completely different reasons than for implementation, but you don't know if a paper will be useful for implementation or not from the title. edit: and I couldn't find an option in scholar.google.com to filter only the free to view articles.

return0 13y ago
Well there are pirate proxies; the fact that they even exists is indicative of how broken things are
- throwaway34899 13y ago
  What are the names of these proxies?
  - kanzure 13y ago
    > What are the names of these proxies? http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles
    - throwaway34899 13y ago
      Many thanks
quasque 13y ago
Despite having what seems to be a reasonable level of access via my university subscription, I too sometimes have the same problem, especially for older papers. Some online resources I quite like for this: http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar - paper requests fulfilled by people who happen to have access http://www.libgen.org/ http://www.libgen.org/ - large collection of scientific articles (and other literature), searchable by DOI http://www.sci-hub.org/ http://www.sci-hub.org/ - proxy service for accessing publisher collections; very unreliable though Hope this helps with your research!
- nraynaud 13y ago
  thanks
- Fomite 13y ago
  See also the Twitter hashtag #icanhazpdf
  - RighteousFervor 13y ago
    I didn't find that method helpful, but I guess YMMV.
tzs 13y ago
Have you looked at DeepDyve [1]? [1] http://www.deepdyve.com http://www.deepdyve.com
- jpmattia 13y ago
  Either the fees are hidden on the site or I need more coffee.
  - nraynaud 13y ago
    after a bit of clicking, I had a banner saying $40/month for unlimited
  - tzs 13y ago
    They are somewhat covered in the FAQ, linked to from the bottom of the page. Some excerpts: ------------- The Freelancer Plan is a free plan with the option to purchase $20 packs which allows you to rent any 5 articles for up to 1 year from the start of the plan. Once an article has been rented, it can be read as often as you like until its expiration in 30 days. Any pre-paid rentals that remain unused after 1 year will become void. ------------- The Professional Plan is $40 per month and entitles you to "virtually" unlimited rentals each month, i.e. you can rent up to 40 articles per month and/or purchase and download up to 40 PDFs per month for a 20% discount. If you need even more access, please contact us because you are extraordinary! ------------- 5-minute rentals are a great way to scan through any rentable article, for free. You get to read the complete full-text of an article in your browser for 5 minutes. You can do as many 5-minute rentals as you want for free-- just not the same article twice in the same day. Rental tokens are available for unlimited rental access to the articles for 30 days. Copying, printing, and downloading aren't included with 5-minute rentals.
    - nraynaud 13y ago
      I would gladly skim 40 articles a month. I guess I skim more like 400 internet pages a day, these don't include a lot of scientific paper because it's a pain in the butt to find them (you have to look for them, you never stumble on them), but there's no reason I would not skim 100-200 on month if they where as common as normal webpages.
frik 13y ago
search for "filetype:pdf" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf
- nraynaud 13y ago
  wonderful, thanks
MrGunn 13y ago
There's a filter in Mendeley's research catalog: http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22cat+pictures%22 http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22cat... for showing only open access papers. (disclaimer: my employer)
fludlight 13y ago
Emailing the authors also works. They generally like to see humans express interest in their work and emailing you a PDF requires minimal effort on their part. Many publishing contracts will also let them publish a full article PDF on their personal website.

return0 13y ago

Well there are pirate proxies; the fact that they even exists is indicative of how broken things are

throwaway34899 13y ago
What are the names of these proxies?
- kanzure 13y ago
  > What are the names of these proxies? http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles
  - throwaway34899 13y ago
    Many thanks

quasque 13y ago

Despite having what seems to be a reasonable level of access via my university subscription, I too sometimes have the same problem, especially for older papers. Some online resources I quite like for this: http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar - paper requests fulfilled by people who happen to have access http://www.libgen.org/ http://www.libgen.org/ - large collection of scientific articles (and other literature), searchable by DOI http://www.sci-hub.org/ http://www.sci-hub.org/ - proxy service for accessing publisher collections; very unreliable though Hope this helps with your research!

nraynaud 13y ago
thanks
Fomite 13y ago
See also the Twitter hashtag #icanhazpdf
- RighteousFervor 13y ago
  I didn't find that method helpful, but I guess YMMV.

tzs 13y ago

Have you looked at DeepDyve [1]? [1] http://www.deepdyve.com http://www.deepdyve.com

jpmattia 13y ago
Either the fees are hidden on the site or I need more coffee.
- nraynaud 13y ago
  after a bit of clicking, I had a banner saying $40/month for unlimited
- tzs 13y ago
  They are somewhat covered in the FAQ, linked to from the bottom of the page. Some excerpts: ------------- The Freelancer Plan is a free plan with the option to purchase $20 packs which allows you to rent any 5 articles for up to 1 year from the start of the plan. Once an article has been rented, it can be read as often as you like until its expiration in 30 days. Any pre-paid rentals that remain unused after 1 year will become void. ------------- The Professional Plan is $40 per month and entitles you to "virtually" unlimited rentals each month, i.e. you can rent up to 40 articles per month and/or purchase and download up to 40 PDFs per month for a 20% discount. If you need even more access, please contact us because you are extraordinary! ------------- 5-minute rentals are a great way to scan through any rentable article, for free. You get to read the complete full-text of an article in your browser for 5 minutes. You can do as many 5-minute rentals as you want for free-- just not the same article twice in the same day. Rental tokens are available for unlimited rental access to the articles for 30 days. Copying, printing, and downloading aren't included with 5-minute rentals.
  - nraynaud 13y ago
    I would gladly skim 40 articles a month. I guess I skim more like 400 internet pages a day, these don't include a lot of scientific paper because it's a pain in the butt to find them (you have to look for them, you never stumble on them), but there's no reason I would not skim 100-200 on month if they where as common as normal webpages.

frik 13y ago

search for "filetype:pdf" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=filetype%3Apdf

nraynaud 13y ago
wonderful, thanks

MrGunn 13y ago

There's a filter in Mendeley's research catalog: http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22cat+pictures%22 http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22cat... for showing only open access papers. (disclaimer: my employer)

fludlight 13y ago

Emailing the authors also works. They generally like to see humans express interest in their work and emailing you a PDF requires minimal effort on their part. Many publishing contracts will also let them publish a full article PDF on their personal website.