We're working in a small satellite institute, and we don't have direct access to an university-level subscription.
There are some (single) journals we subscribe to, but for most of the articles we have no other option than to pay per-article. Doing background research this way is incredibly frustrating, incredibly time-consuming and you have to decide whether a paper is worth investing to just by looking at the abstract. Doing a literature review is hell.
So what we do, like everybody does, is to ask the authors privately, and copy articles whenever we can. Or ask colleagues that have access through an university subscription.
I actually don't mind for the "pay for open-access" model. On all the articles we published, we always picked this option if available. In the scheme of things, the cost of publishing is minor. In several fields (genetics), it's not even a blip on the running costs of a lab. I don't mind paying for journals that actually do a reasonable selection and review on the articles. Some journals are worth the cost of publishing.
Unfortunately, this is not as widespread as it should.
Keep copying guys... nothing new here.
We're working in a small satellite institute, and we don't have direct access to an university-level subscription.
There are some (single) journals we subscribe to, but for most of the articles we have no other option than to pay per-article. Doing background research this way is incredibly frustrating, incredibly time-consuming and you have to decide whether a paper is worth investing to just by looking at the abstract. Doing a literature review is hell.
So what we do, like everybody does, is to ask the authors privately, and copy articles whenever we can. Or ask colleagues that have access through an university subscription.
I actually don't mind for the "pay for open-access" model. On all the articles we published, we always picked this option if available. In the scheme of things, the cost of publishing is minor. In several fields (genetics), it's not even a blip on the running costs of a lab. I don't mind paying for journals that actually do a reasonable selection and review on the articles. Some journals are worth the cost of publishing.
Unfortunately, this is not as widespread as it should. Keep copying guys... nothing new here.