• Nikelui@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Here’s another trick for obtaining free articles: write an email to the author and ask for a copy. We have to pay to publish on journals and don’t see a dime, so we really don’t care if you pirate it.

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      11 days ago

      And wait for days to weeks if it didn’t just go into the spam folder?

      Just put the penultimate draft on arxiv or researchgate like the rest of us.

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        6 days ago

        I don’t know. Is arxiv peer-reviewed? The “best” solution I can come up with is paying the extra 500$ fee to publish under open license, if the journal allows you.

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    11 days ago

    “Oi, you got a loicense for those?”

  • bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Does the “email the paper authors” actually work? I’ve tried it lik twice but never got a response 😔

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      11 days ago

      Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.

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      11 days ago

      Many post their articles on Researchgate. I find requesting the article there has a higher success rate and it’s just a click of a button.

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      11 days ago

      I remember my first week using research gate and spamming the request paper button.

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    10 days ago

    Unrelated, but I saw my neighbor chasing his kid, who’s probably like 8, full speed down the street and the kid was actually pretty fast

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      10 days ago

      Baby legs are no joke! You blink and they’re already halfway across the house. It only gets worse as they get older.

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        10 days ago

        I don’t have kids, but as a kid that got older can confirm this is true. Until you get slow again