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Ángela Stella Matutina
Un honor y un placer. Y alcemos siempre nuestras copas a la salud de la gran Alexandra Elbakyan. Hay que hacerle un monumento en toda universidad o instituto científico.  
Martin Ruskov
@qualcu @jeffowski there's still Elsevier who charge thousands for a single article and get away with not being called predatory editor
Matt
@jeffowski @petergleick another pro tip, just email the authors. I’ve always been able to get a copy of an article and answers to my questions by talking with the authors.
tyx
@inktomi @jeffowski @petergleick
Cal Alaera
@inktomi @jeffowski @petergleick This is the way - anyone who's stood at a poster session for hours on end knows how rare and validating it is for someone to take a genuine interest in your work. :) 
Mourioche ⏚
@chu @jeffowski Itns so true... 🙄
Nicolas Vivant
@jeffowski Thanks for the alert. I was about to do a search on https://sci-hub.se. Now I know it was a bad idea.
Eowyn
@jeffowski there is also this libgen website where you can get scientific manuals for free, here is the adress so you don't go there by mistake https://libgen.is/
Fledertier
@jeffowski Its important to explain this to your students. In detail and with slides, like, otherwise they don't know which website they should never, ever use. 
Dr. Med Johannes M. ✅
@jeffowski well... Writing my doctorate, I bought articles for about 2.000€ (and wrote them off via tax refund down the road later) and that's just. But I agree: I was indeed privileged to have 2.000€ to spend and via that tax-reclaim, indeed the public paid for this little part of my doctorate, and I paid it back through good medical service and determination. But everyone seeking knowledge and enlightenment should always have free access to science. Professionals should have to pay.
taketwo
@jeffowski
Anna
@jeffowski As a teacher of IB and the high school students being told to access academic and peer reviewed journals in order to get the top marks in their IA and EE essays... This is great help. Thanks! 
lachlan
Do not accidentally dissolve this brick of grapes
Jelly :mastodon:
@jeffowski Fun fact: the scientists themselves don’t get any cut whatsoever when people buy the articles.
OS/1337
@jelly @jeffowski IFC nit and if it wasn't criminalized I'd personally encourage every academic to leak their writings to #SciHub within seconds of their release... |
@jeffowski
Too late, I've even installed an extension in my browser that enables me to jump over paywalls with just a click:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sci-hub-addon/