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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Paywalled articles are still openly available if you politely email the researcher. While we should strive to have no barrier, if you can’t afford to publish openly those who need the research can still acquire it under the table. Having research unpublished because the researchers could not afford to pay the fee is worse than having the research published in a closed journal.

I’ve gotten a few dozen papers from closed journals that way, and I’ve never been told no.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or use scihub

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

if scihub went down academia would crumble

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

My prof. said sci-hub is like banned and papers older than 2022 are not availiable. Is that true or thats only for some instances?

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

Banned from use in the uni perhaps. It's working fine and I just pulled a paper from the 90s the other day

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

Nope he said its illegal and site is blocked.

I'm sorry i mean papers newer than 2022 are not availiable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Both are false

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And if the author is from 1899 ?

LitCrit has a healthy backlog in those JSTOR locked away journals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

then it's your duty to sail the high seas like it's 1899

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve never considered that since I’m in cybersecurity, so the oldest paper I’ve seen that is from the late 80s. The majority is from the mid 90s onwards though, and due to the fast moving nature of the field anything that is old enough to have a dead author is likely out of date.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also, if you are starting your career, it's ridiculous to ask you to pay for open access. At least in the third world, you can barely eat with your money.