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8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free
Author : warrenm
Score : 54 points
Date : 2023-08-09 16:12 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| dredmorbius wrote:
| Sci-Hub (scientific articles)
|
| Library Genesis (Nonfiction & fiction books, scientific articles,
| mass-market magazines)
|
| Z-Library (Books, articles)
|
| annas-archive (Books, articles)
|
| Out-of-copyright / open-access materials can be found through the
| Internet Archive / Open Library, Project Gutenberg, and Standard
| Ebooks (latter drawing mostly from the former). Preprints can be
| found on preprint servers such as ArXiv and SSRN.
| sigtstp wrote:
| Re: all the mentions of Sci-Hub, I assume the organization
| intends to keep a professional image and avoid legal trouble, so
| they won't just come out and say "just pirate it". Plenty of
| institutions consider the use of Sci-Hub as misconduct. (I'm just
| presenting the stance, not defending it, if not clear.)
| kragen wrote:
| can you name and shame
| JJMcJ wrote:
| Some universities, especially public ones, may offer library
| privileges for relatively low costs.
| elektor wrote:
| My usual go-to is to use Sci-Hub but that database hasn't been
| updated in a long time so I've switched over to Nexus Search.
| Chrome and Firefox extension here:
| https://github.com/aokellermann/nexus-now
| kzrdude wrote:
| Wikipedia has a program for established editors (with 10+ edits
| the last month) to access journals through
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Librar...
| sva_ wrote:
| 0. sci-hub.st / libgen.is
| abbassi wrote:
| [dead]
| warrenm wrote:
| My personal favorite? #2: "Ask"
|
| It is truly astonishing what you can get when you ask (of course,
| the answer could be "no", but asking is free - why not do it?)
| kergonath wrote:
| I have never heard about a researcher who would not provide an
| article when asked, ever. Most of them would also be happy to
| discuss the content of the articles, how they can be replicated
| and whether they are still accurate.
|
| It does have more friction and latency than a search engine,
| though.
| pessimizer wrote:
| What if the researcher is dead?
| generalizations wrote:
| For me, it's the latency. If I'm researching something, I want
| to read the papers _right then_ so that I can build off of them
| to do my next round of searches, instead of waiting for stuff
| to (maybe) trickle in. With scihub, I can do the search-read-
| search cycle in a matter of minutes rather than waiting hours
| /days for emails to be replied to.
| JJMcJ wrote:
| > it's the latency
|
| Journalists are often on deadline.
| kergonath wrote:
| On the other hand, journalists are also those who would
| benefit the most from some direct interaction with the
| authors. The vast majority of them don't have anywhere near
| the background necessary to actually understand the
| articles.
| kragen wrote:
| maybe those journalists shouldn't be the ones covering
| the papers then
| pessimizer wrote:
| > I want to read the papers right then so that I can build
| off of them to do my next round of searches
|
| I want to read the papers right then so I can figure out if
| they're actually totally irrelevant or even just garbage, and
| delete them and move on.
| antegamisou wrote:
| May be field dependent but unfortunately the most likely
| outcome is the authors never getting back to you.
| hannob wrote:
| Not my experience, and I do this regularly. Scientists are
| often happy when people are interested in their research.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Many authors I'm interested in are dead.
|
| Asks are rarely answered.
| warrenm wrote:
| in this case, the article _does_ suggest asking the journal
| for a free account - not directly to the authors (that 's #6)
| JimtheCoder wrote:
| No love for Sci-Hub?
| cratermoon wrote:
| I suspect the oversight is intentional. The other methods are
| uncontroversial. The mention of the OA button is a nod to it,
| without going into the arguments over Sci-Hub's legality.
| tokai wrote:
| How is it a nod to scihub?
| cratermoon wrote:
| There's a sci-hub now browser extension.
| antegamisou wrote:
| Looks like it's covertly suggested in #5 5.
| Install Browser Extensions Browser extensions can
| help you check the web for free versions of academic articles.
| The Unpaywallbrowser extension gathers content from more than
| 50,000 journals and open-access repositories worldwide.
| The Open Access Button searches "millions of articles" from
| sources that include "all of the aggregated repositories
| in the world, hybrid articles, open access journals, and those
| on authors' personal pages," according to its website.
| If the Open Access Button does not find free versions of the
| articles you're looking for, it will contact the authors and
| ask them to share their work by putting it into an open access
| repository.
| [deleted]
| warrenm wrote:
| suggest it to the article author :)
| idlewords wrote:
| Came here to say the same thing. Just use SciHub.
| hunters_laptop wrote:
| [flagged]
| Bostonian wrote:
| Often a preprint can be found on arxiv.org, SSRN (for social
| science research), or searching "pdf <article title>". My local
| public library has obtained published papers for me on a few
| occasions.
| robwwilliams wrote:
| Elephant in the room is missing as the author must know.
|
| Sci-Hub is sparse for recent articles in certain notorious high
| profile journals. Authors are getting better about coughing funds
| to pay for open access at publication.
|
| Yes, asking for reprint is still highly effective.
| archangelsky wrote:
| Also, annas-archive. Has Literally millions of science articles
| (including the ones from Sci-Hub) all preserved on there along
| with books. Definitely better then Google Scholar imo.
| kergonath wrote:
| > Definitely better then Google Scholar imo.
|
| It's not at all in the same niche as Google Scholar. GS is a
| search engine to legitimate sources for scientific articles.
| It's about finding where the articles are, not about getting
| the articles themselves.
| kzrdude wrote:
| First time I hear about it. Are they likely to stay online,
| has there been any challenges?
| Bystander22 wrote:
| Another article with a different round-up of resources:
|
| 'You're a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?' -
| https://medium.com/a-wikipedia-librarian/youre-a-researcher-...
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