Recent Research Papers Piracy
Recent Research Papers Piracy
I'm looking for recently published research papers. I'm wondering what are the methods of obtaining recently published research papers apart from methods described in the megathread ?
Emailing the author and asking for the paper
Yup. Researchers will gladly send you the study for free, because they don’t make anything when you pay for it through a journal. For the unaware, the fee charged by research journals goes completely to the journal; The author/researchers don’t get anything for it. In fact, they have to pay the journal to get published. And that shit isn’t cheap! The more prestigious journals can charge upwards of $8-10k.
The research journal scheme is a giant scam, designed to double-dip and extract profit from both ends. And it only works because scientific communities tend to look at certain journals as prestigious. So they want to be published in those journals, even if they have to pay. But I can almost guarantee that the researchers resent the journals, because they’ve been roped into paying for research for their entire professional lives. And that’s why they’re usually happy to send you a free copy of their paper if you just email and ask nicely.
Journals are also bad because they frequently privatize research that public funds paid for. For instance, let’s say the government pays for a study to be done. Then the researchers need to get that published, so they pay the journal to publish it. Then the journal paywalls the study, even though it was already paid for with tax dollars. It’s shit that sounds like it should be illegal, but is commonly accepted for some reason.
I'm pretty sure the reason they're happy to send it is because they want other researchers to read it and cite it.
I didn't know that, thanks.
Surprisingly effective and 100% legal
If the author of a paper isn't excited at the idea of sharing their work with an interested party, I'd honestly immediately question the value of their academic contributions anyway.
Me too. In my experience even super successful "star" ones are happy to share.
This is the way. Also they sometimes go the extra mile and send you preprints of stuff that's not out yet.
Most researchers are into sharing their work.
Email sent. Thanks.
I wrote a small homage to Alexandra Elbakyan on my PhD Thesis because her courage and dedication helped me get throw that stage of my academic life. Here are the URLs listed on Wikipedia. They might be blocked by DNS providers, but afaik the project is alive and works for many papers (unless it's too recent) ymmv.
sci-hub.se sci-hub.st sci-hub.ruI actually talked with her recently! She didn't know about Lemmy! So of course I told her last week.
She also said there wasn't a group chat for sci-hub because of scammers trying to bring the project down from the inside. Which I thought was really sad. If someone creates a group chat and posts it on Lemmy though I feel like it would do really well.
I had some questions about scraping the data and I felt bad having to ask her directly for every little problem I had.
They are asking for recent papers. Sci hub only has payers published before 2022.
Take my upvote for your homage.
You can also check https://annas-archive.org/
Checked. Couldn't find it. Thanks anyway.
Be an active Wikipedia editor
Elaborate please.