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bl_r@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 Having research unpublished because the researchers could not afford to pay the fee is worse than having the research published in a closed journal.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.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Or use scihub

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- TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  if scihub went down academia would crumble
  
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- mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?
  
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  - ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨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
    
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    mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope he said its illegal and site is blocked
    
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MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And if the author is from 1899 ?

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- TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  then it’s your duty to sail the seven seas like it’s 1899
  
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- bl_r@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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though, and due to the fast moving nature of the field anything that is old enough to have a dead author is likely out of date.
  
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lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just because you’ve never been told no (n = 1) it doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed success. Authors aren’t obligated to do as you ask.

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