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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it odd that researchers who should be pros at caring about and finding the most correct metrics for every topic are obsessed with a proxy for quality that is just about the most disjoint possible? It should be embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, it's commonly not researchers that create academic circles, it is publishers and other entities with vested interest in making us publish more garbage.

Scientific world is corrupt as hell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

She knows not to travel. The organizer.

But tbh - even zlibrary creators got away from Argentina, they should make a movie about it one day.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 3 days ago (42 children)

So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

no no no you see, putting papers behind paywalls actually incentivizes innovation because... wait what?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Dunno what Sci-Hub is, but most researchers are happy to send you a copy of their paper on request - and this is completely legal. Their email address is usually on the abstract.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I have never ever gotten a response from a researcher :(

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's too bad - I've seen posts from scientists, or people who claim to be, saying what I said.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I am a scientist and you are right. If I get a message asking for my work, I will send it. It will also make me happy that someone is interested. It happens regularly, usually via researchgate.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you send me your emailadress I will send you some papers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

PMd you my mail

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably depends on if theyre still at the institution the research was done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As the first author of a fair few papers during grad school, I don't have that email address anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also not in academia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was trying to get more info on a paper I read for a final project in my senior year. Couldn't get anything back. Their PhD thesis was on spotted lanternflies and how temps impact them

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't they be? It's not like they're getting royalties from these journals...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Not owning it can get them in trouble for sharing

It depends on the publishing agreement

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Noted. Will upload my future papers on SciHub myself. /j. Or am I? Vsauce music plays Did you know vegetables are a social construct?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A sandwich is also a social construct. But not every social construct is also a sandwich.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 3 days ago

If scientists didn't have to pay obscene prices to view articles, those articles are cited more often. Who would have thought?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I personally like scihub because it's easier to get papers off of rather than going through my library's portal for a lot of journals.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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