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259 points the-mitr | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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megaloblasto ◴[28 Aug 25 12:10 UTC] No.45051186[source]▶
I have to read a lot of papers for work. Sometimes 2 or 3 a day. Often when I find one I'm interested in, they want $60 to read the one paper. If I have to read one paper a day, that's about $20,000 a year just to stay up to date with the science.

That's ridiculous. Thankfully someone is breaking down these barriers to science.

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SamuelAdams ◴[28 Aug 25 12:44 UTC] No.45051473[source]▶
Assuming you are in the States, it would be cheaper to enroll in one course a year and use the universities library system to get the papers you need.

What always bothered me about those though is their terribly clunky UI, dozens of redirects, weird auth flows, and more.

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throwaway48476 ◴[28 Aug 25 13:08 UTC] No.45051715[source]▶
Piracy is a service problem. I also have access through university but never use it due to jank.
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1. yupyupyups ◴[28 Aug 25 13:57 UTC] No.45052260{3}[source]▶
That's not the only issue here. Publicly funded papers should be freely available.