[Discuss] Access to Academic Articles

Fri Jan 3 21:01:02 UTC 2014

Hey Alicia, Happy New Year!

There will be lots of journals. We do not suffer from lack of access to
publishing opportunities: we suffer from lack of access to published
materials. It would maybe be greater value to provide journal access
somehow as part of membership. I don't know if that fits within the
educational mandate, but it sure would be helpful....

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for posting this thread. It is indeed frustrating that research
> (including publicly funded research) is so hard to access.
> There's the Open Research Network soon to be publishing journals:
> http://www.openresearchnetwork.org/
>
> A few of us at OSHWA have been wondering if OSHWA should attempt to create
> an open access journal on open hardware, or if our time would be better
> spent submitting to one of the other open access journals. Would love to
> hear the community's thoughts on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Alicia
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:30 PM, malcolm stanley <
> a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.
>>>>> Associate Professor
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>>>>> Michigan Technological University
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>>>>> 1400 Townsend Drive
>>>>> Houghton, MI 49931-1295
>>>>> 906-487-1466
>>>>>
>>>>> Open Source Lab<http://store.elsevier.com/coArticle.jsp?pageid=18200010>
>>>>>
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