1 minute ago, Biophysical said:

Because those 1970s science articles are bringing in major scratch for publishers, I guess.

I suspect it's on principle, not economics for that stuff at this point.

3 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

I freaking work in a job that includes the title "Scientist" and I spend more time than I should searching several pages down on Google results for job critical information hoping I can find a copy of a paper not behind a paywall, because it's still quicker than going through my company's official method for purchasing journal articles.

But it's better than my last position, which involved my boss going to a public library on the weekend, finding the article I needed, and copying it at the library. Because those 1970s science articles are bringing in major scratch for publishers, I guess.

The one of the most prized skills of a software developer is Google-fu.

12 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

I suspect it's on principle, not economics for that stuff at this point.

I suspect you're correct.

Is there no purely academic equivalent to Lexis-Nexis? A subscription servicing encompassing most or all journals? (Although, last I looked, L-N itself had a ton of academic publications included.)

12 minutes ago, Jeff Wilder said:

Is there no purely academic equivalent to Lexis-Nexis? A subscription servicing encompassing most or all journals? (Although, last I looked, L-N itself had a ton of academic publications included.)

We used sci-finder, but no, it didn’t always have all subscriptions.

UF just always had a hodgepodge of subscriptions, and you just did you best to dodge things when you hit a wall.

ditto for when My wife did her post doc.

JSTOR was what I used in school, but I'm pretty sure it's more liberal arts/social sciences-centric?

JSTOR is still used sometimes in science. Scifinder and trolling the university library website to find back channel free options are how I usually do things.

It gets real fun when you somehow find the obscure russian paper that you really need the information from, realize it's in russian and have to hunt down someone who can translate for you

Just now, jagsba said:

JSTOR is still used sometimes in science. Scifinder and trolling the university library website to find back channel free options are how I usually do things.

It gets real fun when you somehow find the obscure russian paper that you really need the information from, realize it's in russian and have to hunt down someone who can translate for you

Just marry a Russian.

#AheadOfTheCurve

1 minute ago, Tlfj200 said:

Just marry a Russian.

#AheadOfTheCurve

Collusion reacts only

Kraytsongraduatestudies

33 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

Just marry a Russian.

#AheadOfTheCurve

Russian girls are where it's at anyway.

#RussiaBest

As someone currently trying to publish in Nature, this discussion is kinda funny. It's been the bane of my existence for the last 7 months. Seems like nothing makes Nature editors happy.

16 minutes ago, defkhan1 said:

As someone currently trying to publish in Nature, this discussion is kinda funny. It's been the bane of my existence for the last 7 months. Seems like nothing makes Nature editors happy.

correkt

33 minutes ago, defkhan1 said:

As someone currently trying to publish in Nature, this discussion is kinda funny. It's been the bane of my existence for the last 7 months. Seems like nothing makes Nature editors happy.

At least it's not PNAS, where work from your boss's lab can't seem to get published, but work from a competitor's lab, which has a former member on the editorial committee, gets accepted. Not just accepted, but published unchanged from its submitted form, with issues raised in review by my boss and myself completely unaddressed.

Hashtagnotbitter

1 minute ago, Biophysical said:

At least it's not PNAS, where work from your boss's lab can't seem to get published, but work from a competitor's lab, which has a former member on the editorial committee, gets accepted. Not just accepted, but published unchanged from its submitted form, with issues raised in review by my boss and myself completely unaddressed.

Hashtagnotbitter

Heh... you said PNAS...

3 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

Heh... you said PNAS...

Don't think you're the first person to have made that joke.

1 minute ago, Biophysical said:

Don't think you're the first person to have made that joke.

It's not even the first time *I've* made that joke :-p

This thread was getting weirdly ... respectable? Academic ? Until the PNAS jokes started. Glad we are back on track.

Weirdly academic is a fun twist. Here's some more:

"In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. By contrast, structure is those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, bombs, etc.) that determine or limit an agent and his or her decisions. The relative difference in influences from structure and agency is debated—it is unclear to what extent a person's actions are constrained by social systems.

One's agency is one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will. This ability is affected by the cognitive belief structure which one has formed through one's experiences in casual play, and the perceptions held by the society and the individual, of the structures and circumstances of the environment one is in and the position they are born into. Disagreement on the extent of one's agency often causes conflict between parties, e.g. parents and children."

Spent 8 hrs doing something besides posting in this thread for the first time in months and what do I see...

Nature! Academics! JSTOR!

Sounds about right.

Speaking of academics & research...

X-Wing tournament prep in progress!

2 hours ago, sozin said:

This thread was getting weirdly ... respectable? Academic ? Until the PNAS jokes started. Glad we are back on track.

PNAS jokes were the most academic part of that conversation

Dang....and the Shuttle Tydirium guys took your trophy?!?!?!? I thought you had skillz?

KRAYT CUP EVE GET HYPPPPPE. POST UP IF YOU'RE GOING CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.

8 minutes ago, catachanninja said:

KRAYT CUP EVE GET HYPPPPPE. POST UP IF YOU'RE GOING CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.

On the plus side I already have my GenCon 2018 badge? Not near as prestigious though, and nobody has a trophy as big as that.