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On the topic of academic journals: I'm graduating from college next year and I want to maintain access to journals without going to grad school immediately. If I were to pay for journal access myself, it would cost me about $20,000 a year to sustain my current reading habits. I'd like to cut that down to below $10,000 (strictly legally).
I've only come up with two options so far:
Convince a university library or department to sponsor me and give me remote access to the university network.
Enroll at a college that has good journal subscriptions and cheap tuition (and provides VPN or EZproxy access to students who never arrive on campus...). Do any of the colleges offering online degrees give network access?
I hope option 1 works out. Are there other options for cheap, legal journal access?
I found that Google works well. It's rare that I find an article I want to read and can't find somewhere -- maybe on the author's web page, maybe copied to some public directory, maybe someplace else. If everything else fails and you really need it, the authors are usually happy to email you a copy upon request.
For you, perhaps. But for me... Well, I host 580 PDFs on
gwern.netbecause they are not otherwise available publicly, and I link to >865 external PDFs (37 of which are Internet Archive or Dropbox, and would not be indexed in Google). So that's easily a third of the articles which I use somewhere, I cannot simply find it online easily.I agree, papers are often publicly available somewhere indexed by Google, but I think that happens for less than half the papers I access.
That's a good point! However, authors are sometimes slow to respond, and most authors die (or, less drastically, some lose copies of and access to old papers).