• baseless_discourseEnglish
    63·
    1 month ago

    At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.

    If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elsevier and have only read the arxiv version; hence citing the elsevier version would be disingenuous.

    • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 month ago

      This might make a good flowchart. The decision points are:

      • Is the article online for free?
      • Is an earlier version of the article available for free?
      • Do I have access to a research library?
      • Does the article look really important? (then contact the authors)
      • Does the article look REALLY important? (then look at one of those pdf sites)

      One of the outcomes is “do not cite the paper”.