Reading academic computer science papers

Re:Reading academic computer science papers by 0x20cowboy on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:26PM (#30953025)

Please correct me if I just haven’t found the right place, but when I’ve tried to read academic papers in the past I found I’d have to pay upwards of $50.00 to read anything more than just the abstract.

Is there a site that gives free access to these research papers?

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by uluyol on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:30PM (#30953040)

Some conferences are open access and the materials are freely available.

Anything USENIX falls into this category. In my area (networking/distributed/operating systems) the other (non-USENIX) major venues are also open access (SOSP and SIGCOMM).

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by Ar-Curunir on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:20AM (#30953306)

sci-hub, but generally most papers are available from the authors' websites, or a preprint server like ArXiv or IACR ePrint

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by the_benno on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:30AM (#30954296)

The best source is usually authors' websites. You can find a free copy of just about any modern CS paper by googling its title in quotes with "filetype:pdf".

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by anonymousDan on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:12AM (#30954556)

$200 a year gives you ACM membership with free access to the DL library (amongst other things including a monthly hardcopy of communications of the ACM). Great value IMHO.

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by schroeding on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:40AM (#30954730)

Asking the author(s) for a copy (by writing a short mail to them) does also often work, if there is no other free source available :D

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by Spivakov on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:56AM (#30954450)

Here is my kettle logic for you to not even try getting around that paywall:

Old papers that are not publicly accessible on the web are very likely just a pile of craps and not worth reading; even if it was worth reading, its information should have been compiled in better ways in textbooks/blog posts; if neither were applicable, then you are supposed to be some researcher working in academia and can ask your institute to offer the access.

Short answer: scihub

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by prionassembly on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:39AM (#30958600)

Email the authors.

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by chrisseaton on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:54AM (#30954807)

Authors put free copies on their websites.

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Re:Reading academic computer science papers by Laakeri on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:28PM (#30953030)

arxiv.org

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