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Thank you, I am the world’s #1 copyright respector!
I appreciate the places to avoid!
I’m struggling to think of an ethical reason not to pirate research papers. which research is done with public funding, and no money goes to the research team or anything involved with the actual research.
medical and stem journals are actually not because the scientist or or university is paywalling them, but the publishing companies are. many articles are free on places like research gates but not all, yea can pirate them, if your still in a university as a student you get full access to all these journals for free anyways.
My professor just used to ask the authors of the papers for a copy. I don’t think anyone ever had any problems with emailing him a copy of their work. After all they want their work to be cited. That’s the whole point
Many researches will just send you the pdf if you ask for it.
the absurd part is that researchers and peer-reviewers often don’t even get paid for their work.
the privately owned journal sacks all the profit.in my opinion, the universities and public libraries should take it on them to publish their own journal. this makes sense since it is already part of the university’s job to distribute knowledge (by educating students). and a journal is just that: a way to distribute knowledge.
Researchers often pay to have their work considered for publication.
This is, broadly speaking, cool and useful advice.
But I keep seeing people enthusiastically post “You know you can get university research papers for free from Quasi-Illegal Source XYZ” without anyone really illustrating what all this cutting edge research is supposed to help me accomplish. Posting this to /c/gradstudentresearchers would make more sense than /c/microblogmemes.
