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Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals? (slrpnk.net)
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I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

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[–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Hey mate, I extracted this one from Scribd using this Scribd downloader I found

Issues in Political Theory 2019

As of now I can't find Rethinking political thinkers, but I found it on Academia.edu and it says there for 3usd (premium trial) you can get the PDF

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Awesome! Thank you for telling me about Scribd downloader and finding the first book.

    As for the Academia.edu link, it doesn’t seem like premium will provide the PDF, that’s just premium membership. The actual PDFs are governed by individual authors. Seems that author uploaded a preview of the book perhaps to indicate that they contributed to it so it counts as a citation.

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

    You're welcome!

    May the winds of the high seas favor you (especially with the 2nd book). I'll try to find it again if I have the time

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ^ This is why Lemmy is better than the alternatives.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Did you try sci hub for the separate chapters (if they have separate doi)?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sci hub no longer updates, and these books are too recent.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Depending on where you live, you might find them in a university library.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My library doesn’t have it unfortunately. I’ve asked for help anyway, perhaps through an inter-library loan. We’ll see.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Have you tried emailing the authors? It's well known that some folks will gladly respond with a copy of the paper at no charge.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't know why people keep pushing this myth.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What makes you think it's a myth?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because it is a myth. Many friends have attempted this and got no response whatsoever. Pretty much almost never have they actually gotten access to the papers by mailing the researchers directly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    People are busy, and academics especially get tons of emails to wade through. When we say that authors will gladly share their papers, it means that the incentives are aligned such that it benefits them to share their work for free. It doesn't mean that they'll drop everything else to respond to your email.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What we did in the situation was buy one book and then everyone photocopied it and split the cost

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That works quite well in my country, where book piracy isn’t as policed, but that’s not an option for me because I can’t access or buy a physical copy.

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    • [+] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A long shot but Google Scholar may have some pages/chapters?

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    In the past, with similar issues, I've had good success with requesting the book on Zlib, especially newer books.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    @mambabasa What are the names of the books?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Both are on Oxford Politics Trove. Would you happen to have institutional access?

    Yes, I’m aware Issues has pirated versions of earlier editions available, I have those already. I’m hoping for the latest version.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Sci-Hub should still be around, I guess...

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Really makes me wonder why they don’t value our work enough to pay us better salaries to afford all the bullshit we’re expected to pay for out of pocket.

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