• Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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    She knows not to travel. The organizer.

    But tbh - even zlibrary creators got away from Argentina, they should make a movie about it one day.

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    Isn’t it odd that researchers who should be pros at caring about and finding the most correct metrics for every topic are obsessed with a proxy for quality that is just about the most disjoint possible? It should be embarrassing.

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      Unfortunately, it’s commonly not researchers that create academic circles, it is publishers and other entities with vested interest in making us publish more garbage.

      Scientific world is corrupt as hell.

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    Dunno what Sci-Hub is, but most researchers are happy to send you a copy of their paper on request - and this is completely legal. Their email address is usually on the abstract.

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          I am a scientist and you are right. If I get a message asking for my work, I will send it. It will also make me happy that someone is interested. It happens regularly, usually via researchgate.

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            As the first author of a fair few papers during grad school, I don’t have that email address anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also not in academia.

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      Why wouldn’t they be? It’s not like they’re getting royalties from these journals…

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        Not owning it can get them in trouble for sharing

        It depends on the publishing agreement

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      Adding up to days in the best scenarios to any research study when scihub or arxiv cuts it down to seconds. Because no one cares about time.

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    Noted. Will upload my future papers on SciHub myself. /j. Or am I? Vsauce music plays Did you know vegetables are a social construct?

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    If scientists didn’t have to pay obscene prices to view articles, those articles are cited more often. Who would have thought?

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    I personally like scihub because it’s easier to get papers off of rather than going through my library’s portal for a lot of journals.

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    I don’t know if it’s just my field or if I’m searching wrong, but I get almost nothing when I look for papers about German grammar and language instruction. Is this mostly for more mainstream/hard science papers?

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      I can’t speak for your field or language but someone has to upload it. Content in German and about grammar sounds very specific. Maybe there’s a lack of interest on scihub. Ask around in your circle where they share/get their articles

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      Idk if itll help but have you tried annas archive? It mirrors multiple science piracy sites.

      Edit:do you mean pedagogical materials or research? Cause I don’t think you’ll be lucky if it’s the former.

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        I have tried it, but also not had any luck. I am looking for research, but it’s still a really narrow field, tbh. Even in Germany, I think there are only a handful of DaF/aZ postgrad programs.

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          So yeah it’s probably your field! Sorry about that. Fwiw I don’t think the problem is that it isn’t ‘hard science’, I find it easy to find philosophical works (German, English and French language ones). It’s probably just too niche.