HEY! Are you a University Student? Do you have access to databases of published papers?
SAVE THEM! WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WON'T HAVE ACCESS ANYMORE! SAVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT - SAVE MORE IF YOU CAN!
Hey! Are you publishing an academic text?
MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you're an academic who doesnt make their papers widely accessible for free you can not complain about your fellow citizens "not following the science"
@exiliaex one of the people I follow on here mentioned something about wanting to make her most recent paper accessible and finding out that it cost significantly more to publish her paper that way.. so as usual, this is the fault of the journals, not the individuals
@julieofthespirits @exiliaex right, and I don’t think the answer is just “all scientists publishing research should bend the knee to journals and pay the fees”
@julieofthespirits @2d as someone whose only experience with academia was working IT/software-dev at a uni for 5 years - it's nice to have some others with more experience helping me adjust my understanding
@julieofthespirits @exiliaex @2d
Emailing a copy of your paper to anyone who asks is a time-honored tradition too.
@exiliaex @2d I mean most of the academics I know also work at the university that's famous for the sci-hub mural so my samples may be biased