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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks Dropout!

[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Careful, lest the AI haters hear that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In your eyes, what are these AI haters complaining about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

To be clear, here is what I mean by rent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (30 children)

Seems to be mainly about property owners not getting enough rent.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Free papers = free access to information

LLMs = trash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The AI haters I've seen really hate free access to information. Well, there's apparently other kinds.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 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] 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why you put the preprint on arxiv

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

And my 🦜!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don’t know if it’s just my field or if I’m searching wrong, but I get almost nothing when I look for papers about German grammar and language instruction. Is this mostly for more mainstream/hard science papers?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't speak for your field or language but someone has to upload it. Content in German and about grammar sounds very specific. Maybe there's a lack of interest on scihub. Ask around in your circle where they share/get their articles

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Idk if itll help but have you tried annas archive? It mirrors multiple science piracy sites.

Edit:do you mean pedagogical materials or research? Cause I don't think you'll be lucky if it's the former.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have tried it, but also not had any luck. I am looking for research, but it’s still a really narrow field, tbh. Even in Germany, I think there are only a handful of DaF/aZ postgrad programs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

So yeah it's probably your field! Sorry about that. Fwiw I don't think the problem is that it isn't 'hard science', I find it easy to find philosophical works (German, English and French language ones). It's probably just too niche.

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