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[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 119 points 1 month ago

My mate Anna has a great archive of papers. Look her up some time!

[-] morto@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago

are the papers from annas archive redundant with scihub, or are they from a different source?

[-] pmk@piefed.ca 29 points 1 month ago

Scihub is one of Annas sources iirc.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Papers in Anna's archive are mostly from sci-hub. There's something not available on sci-hub, but not much.

Real problem is that sci-hub was the organization doing the archival on large scale and it is now dead.

[-] morto@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Not exactly dead, but on a stale due to a legal dispute. However, they have started a new project that fits a legal grey-area called sci-net where people can ask for or help others get access to papers by getting them from their institutional login and sharing on the platform. Not as practical as sci-hub, but better than nothing and less prone to be taken down

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

The fact that public funds go to research only for everything that those funds becoming privatized is a fucking crime.

No grant should be given to any research if the results aren't published on an open journal.

No grant should be given if any marketable discovery becomes privatized

I am still fucking pissed that most countries used public funds to develop a covid vaccine then gifted them to private for profit corporation. Same for basically every medical development.

[-] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 22 points 1 month ago

Many countries' funding agencies require open access publications for work based on their funding. However, open access fees are insanely high in some journals (e.g. around $12k for the higher impact factor Nature journals)...

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

that's also bullshit, I reviewed papers for publication. it's free labour, hosting a pdf is nearly free.

there's no justification.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I like to keep the submitted version after review but without editing on my public repositories. Even when I publish open access.

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[-] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, those price tags are insane. They're making crazy profits of public money thanks to hiring schemes based on impact factors :/

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need nationally funded journals that are free for all people to read and mandate publication through them.

[-] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I like the general direction of that idea. But honestly, not sure if this should be national with all the political pressure and censorship that could come from that. With how international scientific research is, perhaps the UN or a newly formed international organisation could oversee such journals.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 month ago
[-] Maroon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I avoided commenting on this because this makes me very angry. What they did to that boy was fucking disgusting.

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[-] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Urgh…. My fucking god, that made me so angry.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I still can't read it without tearing up

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 35 points 1 month ago

This is why i always place all important info in Supplementary Information which is almost always free of charge. except on sciencedirect. fuck them

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago
[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Directly into their vault

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Founded by Ghislaine Maxwell's father, yes, that Ghislaine Maxwell.

[-] sharktoes@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 month ago

I’ve heard of a lot of scientists using the dark web just to access research articles “illegally” lol

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

If you mean Sci-hub, then yeah that's completely normal. I've used Sci-hub to access my own article once when I had lost access to the published version.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

I'd rather use sci-hub than institutional access when the article is available. Fuck publishers.

Really hope someone comes up, recognizes how much public research money is wasted on this bullshit and sets up a public publisher directly funded by research funds which allows people to publish and read freely.

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[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 month ago

"the dark web" is police fascist fearmongering for tech that lets people access the internet from censored countries

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Counterpoint: it sounds super cool

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago

The dark web is a specific section of the *deep web that can be accessed only using specific software configurations or authorizations

The name make sense because it's in fact hidden, dark and makes quite a bit of sense, the problem is that dark things do make people quite a bit scared and that was then weaponized

And i say that because i don't want to go against whatever you said but to expand on the (in my opinion, too) simplistic view you shared

*the deep web is that huge chunk of the internet that is not indexed by any search engine

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

I mean, it is definitely not just that

[-] morto@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago

Do your part and publish only on journals listed on doaj

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Going open access is great, and that's what I do, but it has to be said a lot of grants do NOT pay for open access publications, and diamond open access (free for authors and readers) is quite rare and you can wait eternity to get published.

So, it has to be paid straight out of personal finances.

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[-] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 22 points 1 month ago
[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Then upload paper to SciHub and the Internet Archive

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

I see capitalism is going as well for the scientific community as it is for the rest of us.

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

closed access publications are still the majority, but at least in my field there is practically always a preprint available and the tendency to migrate to open access journals is there. i hope it will stay

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