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Emily Lakdawalla@elakdawalla.bsky.social |
Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
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Marv
@marvinbutters.bsky.social
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Once a practicing engineer asked me for clarification to use something I wrote and I'm still high from it
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Hannes
@hwitt.bsky.social
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Good tip but really depends on the corresponding author. Profs are very good at not replying to emails.
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Mila Laranjeira
@mila.bsky.social
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Unfortunately it’s not 95% 😢 but it does work sometimes
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Swizzle Necklace
@laudelau.bsky.social
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I asked for some information from a research group for my MSc thesis. The boss was so kind and gave me more than I asked for.
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River Cavy
@rivercavy.bsky.social
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The financial gatekeeping of academic papers is terrible.
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Emily Lakdawalla
@elakdawalla.bsky.social
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P.S. I usually add a sentence like “if you have other papers you think I should read, please include them.” Often an author will have more recent work related to a paper I’m requesting.
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L-M
@ramblingandpie.bsky.social
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ALSO even if you do have access... you can email people to tell them their article was helpful. I've emailed some authors to be like "Hey thanks for [your article about topic] it's super clear and I use it a lot for teaching about [topic]!" The world could use more good vibes sent around.
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Finn Longman
@finnlongman.bsky.social
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In my field they rarely include contact details on the article itself, but it can usually be found with cursory googling and I've never had an author say no when I asked for help finding their work! Several have sent me multiple related articles when I asked for one.
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Ely Rabani #GazaCeasefireNow
@radsci.bsky.social
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Unfortunately there are many reluctant to risk retaliation by Elsevier.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez
@glowsticks.bsky.social
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Yes!! I do this all the time and people are always happy to share their work.
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@newmexicanextexan.bsky.social
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Over my lifetime, I have found that scholars are very pleased when someone is interested in their work.
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Annie down South
@southernspring.bsky.social
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Absolutely! A lot of us also share articles on research gate
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Catlord 👑
@mayanak.bsky.social
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Thank you for such valuable advice! I work at a community college and we don't have access to many academic journals.
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J. C. Rallo
@nosajlaroc.bsky.social
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One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen was an author including the full paper as a document in the Supplemental Information.
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Dr M
@ivalaine.bsky.social
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Assuming that corresponding authors email address is the same as when the paper was published. I will lose access to my uni email once i have finished publishing the last of my papers now i am no longer in academia.
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Miguel Branco
@brancolab.bsky.social
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ResearchGate further facilitates this process. Person finds paper there, presses button to send request to author, author presses another button to send copy stored within ResearchGate to person requesting. Got many a request this way.
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Rye appreciator
@jimadamsgeo.bsky.social
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And 95% of those authors have at least a mild dislike of Elsevier so that works in your favor.
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉
@opaltiger.bsky.social
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This just goes to show how broken our academic publishing system is.
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Laura Gillian
@lgbookworm.bsky.social
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I’ve tried this a couple of times even though I felt kind of presumptuous, but people have always seemed pretty happy to share their papers!
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J
@arthurdeodat.bsky.social
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In my experience, most emails to authors are ignored. I assume because they don't even see them or are too busy. I just don't think people should expect a 95% success rate unless they're KOLs themselves.
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Laura Clawson
@lauraclawson.bsky.social
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When I was working on my dissertation there was an out of print book I desperately wanted. Through the grad student grapevine I learned that the author would send you a copy in exchange for a donation to a charity she supported. It was amazing.
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