Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone by impendia on Friday April 29, 2016 @09:27AM (#11595541)

This is actually common, at least in mathematics: Researchers simultaneously submit to a traditional journal and to the preprint server http://arxiv.org.

Usually I don't have any difficulties finding contemporary papers. It is papers from, say, thirty years ago, that are usually stuck behind paywalls.

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Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone by hanklazard on Friday April 29, 2016 @10:13AM (#11595809)

Interesting. I wonder why nothing of that sort exists for the biomedical sciences? Maybe it's been tried but these publishers won't allow it?

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Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone by tomkinstinch on Friday April 29, 2016 @11:24AM (#11596289)

The biomedical sciences have bioRxiv:

http://biorxiv.org/

It is not used as broadly as arxiv.org, but that may be starting to change.

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Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone by hanklazard on Friday April 29, 2016 @12:01PM (#11596564)

Nice to know, thanks!

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Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone by mattkrause on Friday April 29, 2016 @09:46PM (#11599933)

If you are funded by most US or Canadian agencies, you're required to put make something publicly available. Depending on the journals' contract, it might be the published article, or the final version of the text before they copy-edit/reformat it.

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