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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bless your soul I did not know these existed

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Knowledge is freedom, my friend. Godspeed.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Editing the comment with more tips. Hang on 2 mins.

[–] prayer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shout out zotero. Game changer.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Once you start with the plug ins, you'll never go back. :) Been using it for nearly a decade.

[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kudos for awesome-PhD.

Will review the list and probably come back to add if I may have something in additon.

Edit: and ofc thx for the whole post.

[–] em2@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Post saved.

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[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given the entire scientific community uses this, how the hell do journals still make any money at all?

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 3k publication fee per article. Plus selling print copies to tenured profs.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jesus christ. Proposal. All scientists agree they’ll publish to Wikipedia and donate 50€

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it's nuts. However there are a huge number of open-access journals, and they are becoming more common. BMC/PLOS are the big ones in my field (biology/genetics).

PLOS still charges a fee if your institution is not part of their "network", and it's not cheap, but their articles are free for all to access.