Hi Jake again
Would this guide not be a little more useful if the wording was a little more careful and less antagonistic?
For example is $40 really the norm for buying journal article. You suggest it is. I look up Elsevier. They say that they charge $31.50 https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content/pay-per-view. One might assume that they are the top end in pricing. Perhaps that they are not. Perhaps you have done YOUR research (a good thing) and you have found this to be the norm.
Disclosure I am a researcher working off campus but I am luck because I have an honorary appointment and get access to a top library. I have never bought an article. If I cannot get it directly which is rare I ask the author whose email is usually available with the abstract.
Anthony.
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Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Guide for access to research: Looking for early readers!
To help researchers (and Wikipedians), I've been collaboratively working on a now 24-option guide about how to access sources when you don't have access to them. Many of you are pros at this kind of digging. Could you give it 10 minutes and feel free to make comments, suggestions, corrections, or additions? Don't hesitate to be bold :)
You're a Researcher without Access to Research: What do you do?
Investigating solutions for small nonprofits, social impact organizations, and earnest individuals.
The world of publishing is evolving frantically, while it remains frustratingly fragmented and prohibitively expensive for many. If you're a student who just left your plush academic library behind only to discover you are now locked out of the stacks; a Swedish startup researching water usage in Africa and keep hitting paywalls; a small nonprofit that studies social change activism, but all the latest papers cost $40 per read… This article is for you.
Thank you!
Jake Orlowitz
Head of the Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation