[Discuss] Access to Academic Articles

Sat Jan 4 00:03:35 UTC 2014

This sounds awesome. I'm on the process of writing some papers about open
innovation that would fit very well into said journal.

On 3 January 2014 15:01, malcolm stanley <a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>>> 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
>>>>>> The Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab<http://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST>
>>>>>> Department of Materials Science & Engineering
>>>>>> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
>>>>>> Michigan Technological University
>>>>>> 601 M&M Building
>>>>>> 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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