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If you want to go fully legal, you can also try the add-on (for Firefox, I suppose there are also add-ons for other browsers) Unpaywall. Whenever you open a page for a scientific article, the Unpaywall button will let you know if there is a free, legal alternative to the paywalled paper (for example, university repositories or websites like ArXive).
People who read this might also be interested in Unpaywall. They have a a handy browser extension that immediately lets you access papers for free if a free version exists somewhere. A link with a green lock will appear on most scientific sources, like PubMed if the extension knows where you can access the paper for free. https://unpaywall.org/
Critical Decline of Earthworms from Organic Origins under Intensive, Humic SOM-Depleting Agriculture
> Abstract > In view of recent reports of critical declines of microbes, plants, insects and other invertebrates, birds and other vertebrates, the situation pertaining to neglected earthworms was investigated. Entomological reports found the probable cause of general loss was lack of recruitment from surrounding fields (except for pest species). Earthworm decline under agricultural intensification compared to organic fertilizing is herein charted from several long-term agronomic trials, some operational >170 years. Relative biomass losses of –50–100% (with a mean of –83.3 %) match or exceed those reported for other faunal groups, thus earthworms are conclusively shown to be similarly depleted from their optima in agrichemical fields. Concomitant mean loss of SOC/SOM humus is –56.8% and soil moisture is reduced by –22.3%. Organic farming lessens humic degradation and topsoil erosion, conserves essential soil moisture and biota, and produces equivalent or higher crop and pasture yields (on average +17.8% in this study) at lower cost. Loss of earthworms adds weight for rational re-evaluation of viable means for food production compatible with environmental conservation (agroecology), hence various interlinked benefits of organic husbandry in terms of yields, soil restoration, biodiversity and economics are briefly discussed. Persistence with failing chemical agriculture makes neither ecological nor economic sense.
http://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/2/2/33
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Can we say FUCKED, kids?
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Versuchs doch mal bei https://unpaywall.org/ oder wenn es um Vorträge geht von Konferenzen und/oder Tagungen, schreib die Leute einfach mal an - manchmal schicken sie dir die Papers auch einfach so per Mail zu.
Und wenn gar nichts hilft... verwende die Suchmaschine deines Vertrauens und suche nach sci hub oder libgen.
I posted this awhile back and suggested it be put in the side column, but it ain't there.
Who needs scientific papers here at the neo r/collapse? If just one mod or sniveling complaining snowflake finds the paper's conclusions upsetting then it can simply be branded as "Doom Porn" and be banished to the wilds.
Can anyone share the "official" definition of Doom Porn and explain the rigorous scientific process that distinguishes Doom Porn from non Doom Porn?
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Couple possibilities, aside from the EXCELLENT advice to talk to a librarian:
- Pop the article title or authors into Google Scholar. If the article you want is listed, look for the "All # versions" link at the bottom of the search result, and if it's there, click it. With luck, one of the versions will be open (or at least free) access.
- Install the Unpaywall extension into Chrome or Firefox. (I'm guessing it'd work fine in Brave, too. Not so much Safari, sorry.) This will quietly try to find a (legal!) open-access version for you when you're on an article's abstract/"pay us $$$ to see this article" page.
don't libraries usually have access to them for free? also colleges. + as a layman (so I don't have to access a lot of publications, usually just use google scholar if I'm interested in something) most of the papers I'm looking for have free access too. https://unpaywall.org/ sometimes offers alternatives too if they don't have free access
Even on current electricity grids EVs are an improvement (apart from a few places with very coal heavy grids).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0488-7 (use unpaywall if you don't have institutional access.)
Install the un-paywall extension, which will show you if a free version is available, and for everything else use sci-hub. Follow sci-hub on Twitter (@scihub_love) so you know when the mirrors change.
Seriously, I often use sci-hub even for journals we have subscription to, because it is so much simpler, just paste in the DOI or URL.
I've found Sci-hub less effective these days, but yeah they're still around. Also consider using Unpaywall for searching OA content. Industry people think much of what used to be paywalled will be open access as a standard. Publishers would make money on APC (what the author has to pay to publish) and selling bibliometric data.
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Critical Decline of Earthworms from Organic Origins under Intensive, Humic SOM-Depleting Agriculture
> Abstract > In view of recent reports of critical declines of microbes, plants, insects and other invertebrates, birds and other vertebrates, the situation pertaining to neglected earthworms was investigated. Entomological reports found the probable cause of general loss was lack of recruitment from surrounding fields (except for pest species). Earthworm decline under agricultural intensification compared to organic fertilizing is herein charted from several long-term agronomic trials, some operational >170 years. Relative biomass losses of –50–100% (with a mean of –83.3 %) match or exceed those reported for other faunal groups, thus earthworms are conclusively shown to be similarly depleted from their optima in agrichemical fields. Concomitant mean loss of SOC/SOM humus is –56.8% and soil moisture is reduced by –22.3%. Organic farming lessens humic degradation and topsoil erosion, conserves essential soil moisture and biota, and produces equivalent or higher crop and pasture yields (on average +17.8% in this study) at lower cost. Loss of earthworms adds weight for rational re-evaluation of viable means for food production compatible with environmental conservation (agroecology), hence various interlinked benefits of organic husbandry in terms of yields, soil restoration, biodiversity and economics are briefly discussed. Persistence with failing chemical agriculture makes neither ecological nor economic sense.
http://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/2/2/33
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Bring on the cull
Worldwide emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs challenges human health and food security
> Abstract > > The recent rate of emergence of pathogenic fungi that are resistant to the limited number of commonly used antifungal agents is unprecedented. The azoles, for example, are used not only for human and animal health care and crop protection but also in antifouling coatings and timber preservation. The ubiquity and multiple uses of azoles have hastened the independent evolution of resistance in many environments. One consequence is an increasing risk in human health care from naturally occurring opportunistic fungal pathogens that have acquired resistance to this broad class of chemicals. To avoid a global collapse in our ability to control fungal infections and to avoid critical failures in medicine and food security, we must improve our stewardship of extant chemicals, promote new antifungal discovery, and leverage emerging technologies for alternative solutions.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6390/739.full
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Read research papers for free.
Click the green tab and skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It's fast, free, and legal.
Wait, does unpaywall.org work for anyone?
Even random laymen?
>Read research papers for free.
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>Click the green tab and skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It's fast, free, and legal.
Hmm, seems promising.
I've always wanted to get access to locked research papers instead of just their abstract.
Edit: I know about libgen and sci-hub, I was just talking about online research papers.
Use google scholar. Search barefoot running, minimalist running, unshod running and other such terms.
You'll get this kind of result
A lot of these will be behind paywalls. Get a plugin called unpaywall which will help you find free-to-access versions.
See if you can find a recent literature review as these sum up recent research (saving you a job unearthing it all) and hopefully apply some critical thinking to the findings, methods, etc that others have come up with so you get some idea of the assumptions and issues that the studies (and therefore findings) are loaded with. Here is one from 2016. I don't know if there is a more recent one.
Last thing - I think many of us here would be interested in what you come up with so, if you are willing to share, please do!
sci-hub. Lol
EDIT: https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/30143/Swami_0-265052.pdf?sequence=3
It's here. How did I find that? Using an addon called "unpaywall", which checks the internet for freely accessible PDFs of scientific papers.
It happened to find a PDF for this one, though it doesn't always find one.
The most reliable option to read papers is Sci-Hub, however this is technically piracy.
Install the Open Access Button extension and/or the Unpaywall extension if you haven't already. Google Scholar also indexes many of the top institutional open access repositories found in the Directory of Open Access Archives.
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And to promote other ideas: there's unpaywall https://unpaywall.org/
A chrome extension that tries to find open legal versions of a paper (because sometimes the authors publish them on different websites, university pages or others)
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And don't forget to NEVER use libgen or z-lib either.
Also: https://unpaywall.org/ has a Chrome and Firefox extension, if you don't want people questioning legality. It works quite well, has a lot of open access links for normally paywalled articles.
https://unpaywall.org/products/extension
is your friend. If you need access to specific articles mail the academic researcher and ask. Alternatively, DM me and I see what I can do ( I have access to most stuff).
This was exactly what I was looking for. SEO has poisoned the search terms with Medium articles and self serving blogs.
Ill be sure to dive into both those sites as I go.
I keep seeing safety first. But I am unsure what that even means other than take things slow and journal about experiences.
Also thanks for the offer. I may take you up on the DM in a few days once I give things a go for a few days.
PS, this might help with your cough. https://unpaywall.org/
My dad also picked up smoking during the Vietnam war. Easily two pack a day camel non filters until those became hard to find so he switched to regular camels. He had kidney disease so the doctors wanted to put him on the transplant list. To do that he had to quit. They put him on Chantix. He did have some of the bad dreams and depression so they made him cut his doses in half. It only took two months and he never picked up a cigarette again. Sadly, he died 9 years later but I was really proud of him for never picking up smokes again.
As for Welbutrin..... it helped me quit. It was kinda weird. I just.... didn't want cigarettes anymore one day. I started again two years later like an idiot. I did a ton of research on Welbutrin before taking it, and also again when they upped my fiances dose a few weeks ago. Sadly, I had a really bad brain injury so I can't remember specifics of my research except that I felt it was a safe drug to use.
What I do remember is that it's in it's own class of anti depressants. Doctors noticed two things with the people they put it on. Lower doses made people adverse to nicotine. In some high doses it actually helped people with ADHD. I can't remember if both of those things are still "off label" prescriptions but like I said, the research I did seemed promising to me. If you want to do more research you can use this extension to get around paywalls for research articles.
You can also access it using the Unpaywall browser extension.
Unpaywall harvests Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and makes it easy to find, track, and use.
You could try using Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/products/extension
It has a browser extension which can find open access versions of articles (either from arxiv or university servers or similar publicly uploaded versions).
Another alternative would be finding the author uploaded copies on ResearchGate.
Ok, this DOI is for an article that is indexed as abstract only and paywalled in a number of databases: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.005
Appending it to the unpaywall.org url returns a url to the full text: unpaywall.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.005
Local municipal libraries may have access to some journals - check that out first. Library genesis and scihub have already been mentioned, and presenting them as "what not to do" and "why these aren't legal" is probably enough to get the point across.
Emailing the corresponding author is a good way to get papers in a legit way - I've given out book chapters and papers to anyone that contacted me. They may have to find an updated email address, though, so some sleuthing is necessary if the paper is more than a couple of years old.
There are also open-access search engines like unpaywall and directory of open access journals that may be useful.
Also, there is a browser extension called Unpaywall that will automatically tell you and link you to an open version of that journal article if one is available. Excellent tool.
Check out this extension: https://unpaywall.org/
It finds other versions of articles (drafts, alternative hosts). It is especially common with math and CS papers for the author to publish a version available for free. Also, sometimes the paper is free but a publisher will happily charge for the "convenience" of delivery.
Hobbyist :)
I try to at least read the abstract of every new dinosaur paper that comes out (though that doesn't always mean I retain it). Researching for an episode involves a lot more ...erm, digging, since I'm also partially trying to describe how our understanding has evolved.
Paleo papers are paywalled all too often! It's not a great situation for anyone, though Unpaywall and OA Button/Shareyourpaper are trying to rectify it.
Yesterday's megathread has been locked so I'll reply to you here: unfortunately that particular article is copyrighted for some reason, unlike pretty much all the others
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https://unpaywall.org/ this browser extension helps to find free versions of papers if it's not obvious how to access them.
A few tips and thoughts:
- If you are looking to just start from somewhere and find related articles/books, Google Scholar is incredibly helpful in this regard. Just search for something like "Don Norman" and then branch out by looking of what later publications have cited the earlier ones. It also links you to PDFs that might otherwise be pay-walled.
- Unpaywall is a browser extension that might get you an open access copy of the publication.
- That said, many of the research papers can be quite dry for folks who haven't gone through the academic environment for HCI, or STEM research in general, especially those ones that are packed with quantitative analyses. To put it briefly — don't feel bad if you find them difficult to understand, because they are often challenging to read even for us who have gone to grad schools to study the field.
- While scientific publications certainly contain valuable insights, my observation that the conversation rate of learning to application in the commercial tech industry itself is fairly low. In other words: if you want to deepen your knowledge as UX practitioners, keeping up with scientific research trends is definitely beneficial, but just note that you doing this isn't a make or break factor in most industry positions.
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The extension below is needed to get past the paywall for this paper & 25 million others.
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In addition to all that has been said so far, check out "unpaywall". It is an extension that provides links to free copies of paywalled scientific papers. It is also entirely legal.
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If you find a relevant paper that’s hidden behind a paywall, Unpaywall is an excellent browser extension that can help you find an open-source version of that paper. I know for sure it works in Chrome and Firefox.
You might be interested in an extension called Unpaywall that makes available many otherwise locked articles. This one seems to be accessible with the version I'm using on Firefox.
There's a chrome browser extension called unpaywall that attempts to find a free online version of any scientific article you're trying to read that's locked behind a pay wall. It's not 100% effective, but it's pretty close.
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The link to the Unpaywall extension would be helpful in the sidebar. Suggested it on many subs, yet no mods have included it. If I don't include it with a paywalled link, half the time someone says "it's paywalled!", but I don't always remember or want to. It's tedious when one shares paywalled links daily.
As other said, you can find article with google scholar.
For the free access part, there is sci-hub, but also a firefox/chrome extension that searches automatically for free access version of a paper, if you're on google scholar or directly on the journal website.
It's called unpaywall, and it work very well.
If it can't find a free version, it's probably because there isn't.
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For numerical methods to get the thermal conductivity, if you're talking about first-principles calculations, there is a nice review from January.
Use unpaywall.org browser extension. It uses DOI data to sense you're on a journal site, and link to a (legal) free version if it exists. It's the best tool. Just hangs out in the background and doesn't bother me until I'm reading an abstract and a little glowy green unlock symbol shows up on the right hand side of the screen.
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Could you not get past the paywall and just decided to take a wild swing anyway? You missed by a country mile.
> We present a paradigm which provides for a thermodynamically consistent explanation of why there is life, including the origin of life, biological growth, the development of ecosystems, and patterns of biological evolution observed in the fossil record. > > We illustrate the use of this paradigm through a discussion of ecosystem development. We argue that as ecosystems grow and develop, they should increase their total dissipation, develop more complex structures with more energy flow, increase their cycling activity, develop greater diversity and generate more hierarchical levels, all to abet energy degradation. Species which survive in ecosystems are those that funnel energy into their own production and reproduction and contribute to autocatalytic processes which increase the total dissipation of the ecosystem. In short, ecosystems develop in ways which systematically increase their ability to degrade the incoming solar energy. We believe that our thermodynamic paradigm makes it possible for the study of ecosystems to be developed from a descriptive science to predictive science founded on the most basic principle of physics.
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Link to the openly accessible preprint version: https://psyarxiv.com/ps7fk/
I got this link from the Unpaywall extension, which anyone should check out who is interested in getting legal, open access preprint versions of published papers.
Rapid warming is associated with population decline among terrestrial birds and mammals globally
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14361
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