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• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was looking for a paper from fucking 2010 that was cited in a Wikipedia article and it was still behind a goddamn paywall.

  Sci-Hub is the GOAT.

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  • sunoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks like a CROW to me but I ain’t no zoologist

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    • notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a jackdaw

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  science is principled on the concept of reproducibility.

  If the information is behind a paywall, it’s inaccessible and therefore beyond critique, making it unscientific.

  Stealing publications and releasing them open source brings rigir to science

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Legitimate question here. What’s stopping researchers from creating their own federated publishing system for academic journals?

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  • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not federated, but arXiv is free and volunteer supported:

    info.arxiv.org/about/index.html

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not peer reviewed though. Those are called preprints and not papers. Both would be research articles but the difference matters (to scientists at least).

      There’s JOSS which is reviewed. I love it!

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice! I’ll check it out!

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big grants and research money connections are typically only accessible because your paper got in a “reputable” journal, which of course you only have a chance of getting if you publish with a “reputable” system.

    spoiler

    Reputable my ass

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  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Short Answer - Universities

    Long Answer:

    To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.

    “High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.

    So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.

    Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Publishing is a racket. This should have been done decades ago.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and/or if the researchers are still alive email them and ask for a copy they will likely be happy to share it

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  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.

    Some academics out there are just really friendly people.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Copy is not theft.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can also email the author of the paper and they’ll usually be happy to send you their work.

  I was in the “et al” section of a paper during my undergraduate, and this was highly encouraging by my professor, who was lead author.

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• Wofls@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  based and informationfreedom-pilled

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• RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Elsevier’s parent company had a 38.4% adjusted operating margin in it’s scientific, technical and medical arm in 2024

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• daw@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  annas-archive.org

  You might have to switch your DNS to one that doesn’t block based on copyright

  (e.g. Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1)

  Actually i think the effort they are making is cool. It goes well beyond piracy and I think is a good idea esp in face of the world rn.

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• RedBauble@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was not expecting a Polynerdeia meme in here, nice

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