Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists.

Re:Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists. by randomwalker on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:59PM (#2680395)

No, the publishers don't make it availble; you need to look for it on the authors' home pages. Most of the time, if you Google the title with "filetype:pdf", it'll show up.

In the last several years there's been maybe half a dozen times that I failed to find a computer science paper online. I'd estimate that less than 1% of papers in the top conferences are unavailable freely online.

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Re:Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists. by maaku on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:10PM (#2680792)

Computer science journals are pretty unique in that they let authors get away with that. In any other industry the papers are owned by the publisher, not the author, and putting a link to your own paper on your own website is a copyright violation they will take you to court for (or just blacklist you so you never publish again).

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Re:Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists. by lutorm on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:20PM (#2681203)

Not true. In astrophysics, at least, all journals I know of let you keep rights to noncommercial publication like putting the paper on arXiv and on your web page.

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Re:Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists. by toddh on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:53PM (#2680751)

Sorry, that's not my experience. And I read a lot of papers. Most of the time they'll link to a walled site or have no link at all.

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