Fwd: journal article requests

[Mackenzie Cowell]

diybioers,

Our friends at Guerrilla Open Access are proactive about making all of the world's technical knowledge open-access.  Sooner rather than later.  They may be good resources for getting articles.  Alternatively, some of you (Bryan Bishop)? may have content for contribution :)

Mac

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From: Aaron Swartz <m...@aaronsw.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Subject: journal article requests
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Many people I know are often looking for copies of journal articles.
I'm putting together a group of volunteers to help them locate them.
If you want to help, sign up for this mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/getarticles

If you want a journal article, just send an email to
getar...@googlegroups.com -- someone on the list will try to reply
with a link to the article.

Useful tools:

Scribd.com lets you host PDF files for free.

anonymailer.net lets you send email from a web form.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 03 October 2008, Mackenzie Cowell wrote:
> Our friends at Guerrilla Open Access are proactive about making all
> of the world's technical knowledge open-access.  Sooner rather than
> later.  They may be good resources for getting articles. 
> Alternatively, some of you (Bryan Bishop)? may have content for
> contribution :)

Get them on the phone with me. I have 100+ GB of stuff I need to get out
there.

- Bryan
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[Tito Jankowski]

Great link, thanks Mac!
Tito

[Tito]

This thread is a whopping 1,563 days old. Where is everyone getting access to journal articles these days?

Since leaving college I haven't had real journal access, despite startups, jobs, and even writing a few provisional patents. Getarticles was great, but it's been gone for awhile. I remember Nathan said he was worried about losing journal access if he stopped taking classes. I was helping my mom understand her 23andme results, and below every summary is a link to primary literature for $40 a pop, 4 pubs on wet and dry earwax = $160.

Do you read journal articles? Anyone found a place to pay $100 or $200 for a year of access to 95% of biotech journals?

Also, wasn't there a website that briefly offered $1 access to articles? Whatever happened to it? 

Thanks!

Tito

On Saturday, October 4, 2008 5:24:05 AM UTC-10, Tito wrote:

Great link, thanks Mac!
Tito

[Bryan Bishop]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Tito <titoja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread is a whopping 1,563 days old. Where is everyone getting access
> to journal articles these days?

1) in ##hplusroadmap on irc.freenode.net, links that are dropped in
normal conversation are picked up by paperbot and a public access link
is dropped into the channel.

2) http://reddit.com/r/scholar

3) sign up at a local community college, yo

4) the getarticles mailing list was taken down by aaronsw in 2011,
presumably because lawrence lessig told him to (he was right).

5) crawler enthusiasts, unite! you only have your institutional access
to lose, maybe:
https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front

> Do you read journal articles? Anyone found a place to pay $100 or $200 for a
> year of access to 95% of biotech journals?

http://deepdyve.com/
http://readcube.com/

The prices are way higher than that, sadly. It's completely unrealistic.

> Also, wasn't there a website that briefly offered $1 access to articles?
> Whatever happened to it?

it's pure evil, more evil than scribd :-).

- Bryan
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[Brian Degger]

Tito what are the articles?

I'd like to experiment with getting them the old fashioned way :)

cheers

Brian Degger

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[John Griessen]

On 01/14/2013 09:06 PM, Tito wrote:
> Do you read journal articles? Anyone found a place to pay $100 or $200 for a year of
access to 95% of biotech journals?

Texas may not be as backward as it sometimes seems after all -- at least in Austin.
My local university has a community borrower card
that usually costs $40/year that allows access to journal articles from databases
while at certain workstations in the libraries -- no online access. I go and copy
a reading list to a usb flash memory and peruse later.

I have a city library card and with just a few minutes per year they check my ID,
write up a special card stating good status called a TexShare card, I take that
to UT and get a community borrower's card for free.

These cards and methods are all in person and cannot be done online at all.
Like Bryan said, you may have some local state funded college to ask
for these kind of benefits from. There's no harm in asking.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM, John Griessen <jo...@industromatic.com> wrote:
> while at certain workstations in the libraries -- no online access. I go

How uncivilized.. I think it would be faster to just post your
requests. We would be happy to help you.

[Cathal Garvey]

Does that IRC bot actually fetch paywalled papers and post them elsewhere, or is it only useful for open access articles?

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[Nathan McCorkle]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does that IRC bot actually fetch paywalled papers and post them elsewhere,
> or is it only useful for open access articles?

try it

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[Tito]

Thanks for the notes guys! I posted a summary covering the 3 simplest options...RedditScholar, DeepDyve (which so far I think sucks), and buying the article:

http://titojankowski.com/?p=366

Tito

[John Griessen]

On 01/16/2013 12:46 PM, Tito wrote:
> Thanks for the notes guys! I posted a summary covering the 3 simplest options...RedditScholar, DeepDyve (which so far I think
> sucks), and buying the article:
> http://titojankowski.com/?p=366

"Request the article on Reddit Scholar. Within about 20 minutes, a scholar responds "

If that works it sounds good for all but the most mercenary researchers, or ones working on
things with mass appeal. Mass appeal topics might swamp out volunteer urges...

or the ones who
did get the prepress article versions before the authors got swamped
could redistribute if the license allows.

[Mr. Gunn]

For completeness, there's also #icanhazpdf on Twitter.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Mr. Gunn <willia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For completeness, there's also #icanhazpdf on Twitter.

Can we just hit you up for pdfs? Surely Mendeley has a big collection by now...

[ruphos]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bryan Bishop <kan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can we just hit you up for pdfs? Surely Mendeley has a big collection by now...

I dunno, they're owned by Elsevier now. I think they'll be charging by the word soon... ;)

 

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[Jeswin]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:39 PM, ruphos <apokr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I dunno, they're owned by Elsevier now. I think they'll be charging by the
> word soon... ;)
>

When was this? I never liked them. Still haven't found a good pdf organizer.

[Xabier Vázquez Campos]

There is a FB group to request papers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freepapers/

I can get papers from the uni but it may take me few days sometimes, depending on how busy I am

phillyj: try Zotero, much better than commercial stuff like EndNote. All my colleagues who tried they change to it.