[Discuss] Access to Academic Articles

[malcolm stanley]

Harris, thanks for that... I'm still in discovery phase and gathering
citations, so I don't have a good list I could give you... and  that is
part of the challenge, right, that research is an iterative process until
you understand its boundary with development?

but good feedback, thanks!

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Harris Kyriakou <ckyriako at stevens.edu>wrote:

> Another idea is to search at the websites of the authors. Many of them
> unofficially share their published papers.
> As a more temporary solution and if you have have a specific list of
> papers you are interested in, I will be more than glad to help you get
> access.
>
> Best,
> Harris
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu <
> tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Option 3 is very effective if you are part of a network containing
>> individuals affiliated with academic institutions. We use it a lot in
>> SENSORICA.
>> On Dec 31, 2013 9:01 AM, "Joshua Pearce" <professor.pearce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Malcom,
>>>
>>> You have hit on a major problem in academia  - lack of basic access to
>>> past research. Even publicly funded research is often behind absurd pay
>>> walls. You are not alone -- even relatively good academic libraries rarely
>>> carry all of the titles. I can't get access to some of my own work without
>>> paying $50/paper. Many academics share your frustration and the open access
>>> movement in academia is growing strong. I am confident that in the near
>>> future everything will be freely available - all federal funded research in
>>> the US is about to go that way following the NIH model....and OSH will be
>>> next :)
>>>
>>> That doesn't help you with your project today - so I have a few
>>> recommendations:
>>> 1. Look in the open access repositories where we post our preprints such
>>> as
>>> https://www.academia.edu/
>>> https://www.researchgate.net/
>>> http://arxiv.org/
>>> even a simple  http://scholar.google.com/ searches for the articles
>>> that you are interested in sometimes turn up free versions
>>> 2. If you can at least get to the abstract page on the paid page - you
>>> should be able to get the email of the contact author. If you email the
>>> author, ask for a copy while saying something nice and that you "want to
>>> read it in order to cite it"....that should work 90% of the time.
>>> 3. Make an academic friend in the field that would be willing to share
>>> their personal database with you (e.g. Zotero, Mendeley etc) so that you
>>> can get you most everything else.
>>>
>>> Best of luck
>>> Joshua
>>>
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