A Mastodon post of someone complaining about the inaccessibility of research papers

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[–] 119 points 2 months ago (20 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 76 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    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)...

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

    there's no justification.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Do your part and publish only on journals listed on doaj

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    Then upload paper to SciHub and the Internet Archive

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months 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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