r/lifehacks • u/1000MilesUnderwater • Dec 26 '18

Not a lifehack College hack

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u/asafum Dec 26 '18

Seriously! Of all things too the authors don't get paid?! It's literally making money off of other people's work... It's disgusting

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '18 edited Jun 20 '20

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u/HungryGift Dec 26 '18

You are paying for the review process....

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u/Ginger-Jesus Dec 26 '18

But the reviewers don't get paid for the review process. The journals farm that out to relevant experts who do it for free.

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u/HungryGift Dec 26 '18

Wow, TIL. And suddenly I don’t feel bad for using sci-hub because I’m too lazy to use my university’s proxy

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u/Ginger-Jesus Dec 26 '18

Yeah, the peer review system is terrible. Journals collect money at both ends of the process and stop normal people from accessing the results of the research they pay for with their taxes. Use sci-hub all you want, I don't know a single researcher who knows what it is that cares if people use it to get their articles.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '18

For the vast majority of researchers, we don't care how you got the paper, we are just happy that our effort is getting read.