• keepthepace@slrpnk.netEnglish
    27·
    27 days ago

    Alexandra Elbakyan deserves a Nobel and a presidential pardon. I doubt any other person alive now has made more for science.

  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
    20·
    27 days ago

    I’m in a class right now that requires a DMR locked live service textbook. I can only access it as long as I am connected to the internet. I live where 2 back to back hurricanes just hit so I expected to not have power or internet and wanted to copy some of the text from the textbook into a txt file. However, the DRM detects the copy/paste usage and limits the ability to only copy like 100 words. After a quick search I found out the dumb-asses that created this textbook site put all of the text in <p> tags in the plain html doc.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    I have never been anywhere close to academia, hell I don’t have a degree at all. However, I am very aware of the bullshit that goes on with publishing. Oddly enough, I occasionally need to read papers on material science or metallurgy.

    From my limited experience and understanding, there is no journal for null findings. Isn’t that equally important? Tempted to just make something basic for that.

    Anyway, to the point of the post - please seed.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      27 days ago

      there are a few, but these are small and new, and most of the time null results are published along positive results, not on their own

      you can mirror entire scihub repository, it’s listed as hundreds of torrents somewhere, each is zip of 100000 pdfs. i think it’s under 200TB

  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    27 days ago

    Def email the researchers, so many of them would gladly give you access to their research papers because they also hate the science publishing industry.

  • twinnie@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    27 days ago

    It’s crazy how entitled we all feel to free information and news nowadays. 30 years ago you would never expect a newspaper for free but now it wouldn’t even occur to me to pay for news. Then we all wonder why the news sites all only deal in crappy click bait.

    • Maroon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      27 days ago

      It’s crazy how entitled journals feel to receive free content from researchers, extract free labour in the form of peer review, and then just slap their name on the content, and paywall the knowledge. The very knowledge that was generated from tax payer’s money.

      Then they wonder why the academic community thinks poorly of journals and their lackeys.