Pity for Mr. Swartz though, it's a shame to see such a brilliant mind gone.
Indeed.
Topic: I can get you diverse academic papers (Read 2776 times)
Indeed.
Remember Aaron Swartz?
Hah, okay, when I pirate 4 million papers from JSTOR and crash their servers, call the feds. Pity for Mr. Swartz though, it's a shame to see such a brilliant mind gone.
Remember Aaron Swartz?
More like broken copyright system
Remember Aaron Swartz?
Well, it has been a while, but I'm back and still offering the service. Let me know on the post or in a PM if you have any questions/requests.
what journals are we talking here? what disciplines? chem? EE? CS? bio?
It's also illegal as all hell, but I'm sure no one cares.
Depends on your jurisdiction, doesn't it?
Not after the WIPO changes went through about 4 years ago. In Germany they can kick you out of Uni, should they find out. In my company several people lost their job trying to pull that stunt.
Just saying.
Not calling you out on this, but I struggle to see how someone at a University would be caught. Maybe thrown out if they did, but finding you would be the hard part. I access possibly hundreds of articles a month as part of my degree course, unless I started spending more time selling articles than I do studying I find it difficult to believe the IT department would track me down out of an institution of over 30,000 people.
EDIT: So on second thoughts, I suppose I could probably offer a similar service.
I am looking for an article called:
"As a member of German Pirate Party what is your stance on Julia Schramm's vehement defense of her copyright?"
Haha, I see you read my post in Politics&Society. Thanks for the question, I didn't know about that story. I caught up with it on the spiegel website:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/pirate-party-member-julia-schramm-slammed-for-defending-copyright-a-856977.html
First of all, she is kind of cute! Would mind discussing the book with her in private
More to the point, the publisher made the takedown request, and not Frau Schramm. Still, she is backpedalling on her earlier statements against copyright and that's disappointing. Furthermore, it also means the end of her career with the Pirate Party but it did net her a nice 100k, so not too bad of a choice
What can I say, I condemn her actions, but don't agree with people who call her a "corporate whore", "slut", etc. The lady made a choice to sell out and that's her decision.
BTW, on an unrelated note I googled your article request with the quotes, and found out that google has already parsed this very post. Scary how quickly they do it.
She is kinda cute.
They've got better in the German Pirate Party. Like Marina Weisband
I am looking for an article called:
"As a member of German Pirate Party what is your stance on Julia Schramm's vehement defense of her copyright?"
Haha, I see you read my post in Politics&Society. Thanks for the question, I didn't know about that story. I caught up with it on the spiegel website:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/pirate-party-member-julia-schramm-slammed-for-defending-copyright-a-856977.html
First of all, she is kind of cute! Would mind discussing the book with her in private
More to the point, the publisher made the takedown request, and not Frau Schramm. Still, she is backpedalling on her earlier statements against copyright and that's disappointing. Furthermore, it also means the end of her career with the Pirate Party but it did net her a nice 100k, so not too bad of a choice
What can I say, I condemn her actions, but don't agree with people who call her a "corporate whore", "slut", etc. The lady made a choice to sell out and that's her decision.
BTW, on an unrelated note I googled your article request with the quotes, and found out that google has already parsed this very post. Scary how quickly they do it.
She is kinda cute.
It's also illegal as all hell, but I'm sure no one cares.
Depends on your jurisdiction, doesn't it?
Not after the WIPO changes went through about 4 years ago. In Germany they can kick you out of Uni, should they find out. In my company several people lost their job trying to pull that stunt.
Just saying.
It's also illegal as all hell, but I'm sure no one cares.
Depends on your jurisdiction, doesn't it?
dont university libraries already give you access to thousands of journals?
Yes, but I kind of hate this idea that to do science you have to be a member of a university. What happened to independent scientists like Tesla? I'm sure there are really smart people out there who don't have the privilege to be in a university setting. Does that mean that they should be excluded from the exchange of scientific knowledge?Besides, the current journals model is quite greedy - scientific journals do not pay for peer reviews and do not pay the authors of the papers. They obtain their profits simply because they have a monopoly on publishing. If you are a scientist, you have to sign away a large part of your rights on your paper just so you can get it into a high-impact journal. That's sad and slowly changing with the advent of open-source journals but old and bad habits tend to be hard to forget.
I think one of the most beautiful things about the Internet is the potential to share knowledge with anyone in the world, no matter of their nationality, political leanings or economic background. This is partly why I'm offering this.
The selection of papers available is great. (Sorry, I haven't come back jet. Free bump for that. I don't have much time recently and still going through to what I might need.)
For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
dont university libraries already give you access to thousands of journals?For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
Yes, if you have access to a university library they can get papers for you. But not everybody has easy access to such an institution.
I have access (through where I work) to most chemistry journals. If there is something you cannot access, I would be willing to try to get it.
And that I'm outraged that this cost up to 30$ for one single article doesn't make it better.
That's actually one of the cheaper ones. I've seen prices reaching up to 160 € per article. Yeah....
Doesn't apply to academic journals articles. Basically you only buy a license to use, you do not buy ownership.
Copyright law for scientific literature is all kinds of fucked up. For academic institutions it's even not THAT bad. You don't want to know what hoops you have to jump through to use them in a commercial environment, and that's not even touching on the massive amounts of money you need to spend on copyright clearance. I'm talking several millions in dirty fiat money here.
Year, I agree getting this might be "questionable" to put it lightly.
And that I'm outraged that this cost up to 30$ for one single article doesn't make it better.
This service would allow me to read a few selected article that interest me for a reasonable price, that I would otherwise have no option to read.
And I'm still not convinced that giving a article you have to another person is illegal.
Selling them on the other hand?
But he still can give me the paper to read and if it helps me he gets a donation for pointing me in the right direction. And that's basically what he does.
(Sorry for confused writing style, I'm tired)
Doesn't apply to academic journals articles. Basically you only buy a license to use, you do not buy ownership.
Copyright law for scientific literature is all kinds of fucked up. For academic institutions it's even not THAT bad. You don't want to know what hoops you have to jump through to use them in a commercial environment, and that's not even touching on the massive amounts of money you need to spend on copyright clearance. I'm talking several millions in dirty fiat money here.
The selection of papers available is great. (Sorry, I haven't come back jet. Free bump for that. I don't have much time recently and still going through to what I might need.)
For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
dont university libraries already give you access to thousands of journals?For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
Yes, they do, and what they do no have licenses for, they can get legally via ILL.
The selection of papers available is great. (Sorry, I haven't come back jet. Free bump for that. I don't have much time recently and still going through to what I might need.)
For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
dont university libraries already give you access to thousands of journals? For Example: That's an invaluable service here for anyone just writing his Master/Bachelor thesis.
If I had only known you a view years sooner.
It's also illegal as all hell, but I'm sure no one cares.
Nope, you government-dependent goon.
It's also illegal as all hell, but I'm sure no one cares.
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