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[-] bl_r@beehaw.org 21 points 7 months ago

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 Having research unpublished because the researchers could not afford to pay the fee is worse than having the research published in a closed journal.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.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 12 points 7 months ago

Or use scihub

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

if scihub went down academia would crumble

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nope he said its illegal and site is blocked.

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

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Both are false

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And if the author is from 1899 ?

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

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] bl_r@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months 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though, and due to the fast moving nature of the field anything that is old enough to have a dead author is likely out of date.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months 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.