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Re:8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free by generalizations on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:02PM (#37066375)
For me, it's the latency. If I'm researching something, I want to read the papers right then so that I can build off of them to do my next round of searches, instead of waiting for stuff to (maybe) trickle in. With scihub, I can do the search-read-search cycle in a matter of minutes rather than waiting hours/days for emails to be replied to.
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Re:8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free by JJMcJ on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:19PM (#37066569)
> it's the latency

Journalists are often on deadline.

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Re:8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free by kergonath on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:27PM (#37067342)
On the other hand, journalists are also those who would benefit the most from some direct interaction with the authors. The vast majority of them don’t have anywhere near the background necessary to actually understand the articles.
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Re:8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free by kragen on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:49PM (#37068916)
maybe those journalists shouldn't be the ones covering the papers then
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Re:8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free by pessimizer on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:34PM (#37067403)
> I want to read the papers right then so that I can build off of them to do my next round of searches

I want to read the papers right then so I can figure out if they're actually totally irrelevant or even just garbage, and delete them and move on.

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