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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.
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.
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.
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.
I have never ever gotten a response from a researcher :(
True. Researchers won’t just give out their papers for free. They will see what benefit they are going to get. If the person asking for the paper himself is a researcher and doing a study related to the persons paper then they may send it to you. If a layman asks then no researcher will send a copy. In research world its all give and take. Sometimes only give but no take. Research is a very mind eating, frustrating field. Until and unless you publish a lot of first author, peer reviewed studies in high impact factor international journals nobody gives a shit.
I’m a researcher and i would gladly send anyone a paper who asks, without a reason needed. Although all my papers are open access anyways so shrugs. Btw it’s also not unusual that people may just ask some questions related to ones paper via email and im always happy to answer those. I believe that most researchers are always glad to share their expertise and findings (as long as it isn’t a huge effort ofc).
Lazily reasoned misanthropic nonsense, if every scientist were of this zero-sum mindset they’d all have long since transitioned to industry roles in engineering for the higher average pay alone.
I think this is a limited viewpoint, its more grey than you are making it out to be.
That’s too bad - I’ve seen posts from scientists, or people who claim to be, saying what I said.
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.
Yo can I get a copy of your work?
Probably depends on if theyre still at the institution the research was done.
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.
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
Why wouldn’t they be? It’s not like they’re getting royalties from these journals…
Not owning it can get them in trouble for sharing
It depends on the publishing agreement
Adding up to days in the best scenarios to any research study when scihub or arxiv cuts it down to seconds. Because no one cares about time.
Noted. Will upload my future papers on SciHub myself. /j. Or am I? Vsauce music plays Did you know vegetables are a social construct?
A sandwich is also a social construct. But not every social construct is also a sandwich.
Thanks Dropout!
So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!
no no no you see, putting papers behind paywalls actually incentivizes innovation because… wait what?
Careful, lest the AI haters hear that.
In your eyes, what are these AI haters complaining about?
To be clear, here is what I mean by rent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Seems to be mainly about property owners not getting enough rent.
I’m not sure you have understood that people don’t want to profit from their data, they want to avoid corporations stealing their private texts and pictures to train models they’ll profit from.
Is this some weak attempt at gaslighting? If you want to make a career out of this, you really need to up your game. I mean, can you imagine some think tank going: Landlords don’t want to profit from those apartments, they just want to avoid people squatting in them for free.
Your problem is that the landlord analogy just doesn’t suit this situation.
Rent seeking is long-established economic jargon. It doesn’t necessarily imply a landlord analogy. A landlord may not be extracting an economic rent within that definition.
The point is rent-seeking, not an analogy to landlords.
Free papers = free access to information
LLMs = trash
The AI haters I’ve seen really hate free access to information. Well, there’s apparently other kinds.
Very misguided.
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This is why you put the preprint on arxiv
Explain more
If scientists didn’t have to pay obscene prices to view articles, those articles are cited more often. Who would have thought?
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.
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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?
My input: I’ve never searched for papers in Scihub directly. I usually find them off Google scholar or something, and then put the paywalled URL or the DOI (an identifier you can usually find in the paywalled website) in Scihub to go to that paper. I don’t think search capabilities are in scihub’s scope.
I generally use the DOI, but I did not realize that you could just type in a paywalled url. That might explain it, thanks!
Guess it is time to fill in that niche, 😉 😉
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
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.
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.
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.
