I might as well have thrown my money in the toilet. I use to think that Acedemia. Does this also mean this site is for profit maximization? It sounds like the cons out way the pros in this review. I can see where allowing anybody to post in a forum such as Academia would be detrimental to the quality of academic information being written there.
I know if I was a student looking for information for a dissertation paper I would want that information to be accurate in every respect. I think I will stay away from academia for any important knowledge that needs to be validated.
As someone with a background in science and research, this site clearly fails on many levels. This site is very problematic. Someone should do a research paper on it, following the scientific method, to see what proportion of papers are genuine academic papers or not…. As someone that is constantly looking to verify information about the brain, body and other interests it is good to know that academia does not have a vetting process.
I figured that academia would be more reliable than wiki but I guess not. Thank you. When you are a student you are always looking for resources in order to help you succeed in collage. Sometimes its hard to find legitimate resources and seeing a website like this can really be of help to students. However i am happy you did an honest review because it is true that some of these sites do not filter information which can be very frustrating if you are looking for reliable sources to help in a term paper or project.
Thanks for sharing. Hi Jay, Thanks for your article. I must admit I had completely forgotten about Academia. Then it all came flooding back after a rather unfortunate incident whilst I was completing my MBA. I was writing an assigment task and referenced a document that I found within that site.
Thankfully the marker was kind and did not deduct me for it. My recommendation for anyone doing academic study would be to stick to university sites or google scholar.
I do agree that creating your own website and becoming an authority in your niche will bring you a lot more knowledge than just doing a research on Academia. I will definitely keep this in mind about this website and try to avoid it whenever I need some scientific data. Sometimes I think we fall into the trap of things like this online since they are convenient to us and we don really do our homework on the site ourselves. What makes it worse is you see the large userbase they have and that makes you feel safe or that the site is legit.
I read where you say that even professional can damage their reputation even putting their own papers on this site. My question say you did so unknowing of the risks of posting on this site, are you able to just remove your papers from the site easily? Hello Jay, very interesting article about Academia.
I can say that I also find more cons at this web platform, there are so many articles published, but who has a time to searching an checking which one is really reliable. I like your review, thanks for sharing with us!
Can you suggest some alternative sites where I can refer them to? Can you suggest some alternative sites? My brother is working as a scientist and I think that he would see the same flaws in this that you have just mentioned. I do not like the fact that you might not even be giving out legitimate information. There must be other ways, yes having your own website can be really good and would definitely be of benefit to any one who wants to get their research seen.
I think the academic community is slowly coming out of the dark ages and adopting the online world in terms of publishing. There is a myriad of scientific journals out there. They have an impact scoring system in place. So, if a scientific journal has a high impact score, it means that it is a very reputable paper such as Nature, Science, which is quite impossible to publish papers in if you are just starting out in the scientific field.
However, there are also plenty of journals with a lower impact score and as good as the one with high impact scores that you can publish your scientific finds. Well, that was the good old days of doing things… After reading your review, I now think that I should have stayed around in the scientific field a bit longer!
Because I could have created my own website and published my work as you suggested here in your Academia. Back then, when I was just starting, I was struggling to get my work published and gain recognition among my peers.
It may be that the local university has arrangements with academic publishers that permit their own students access in some form, either e-books, or interlibrary loan, or even possibly downloading at a modest fee. Another possibility is that you could seek to obtain a small grant from someone or some institution for the purpose of library building.
Even a favorite uncle or aunt is a possibility for that. No, it is not legal. Downloading copyrighted material from unauthorised sources is, well If I'm not mistaken LibGen was sued for that. Many universities' libraries have online access to some catalogues, so you would probably be able to access and download directly from Springer and it won't be illegal because your uni would have paid for access.
Usually your local law will prevent copyright violations, therefore it is illegal, independent of your status. It does not matter which computer you are using, but if you are using a university computer, your university rules might enforce further actions like kicking you out of university for using university equipment for illegal purposes, even if there is no official lawsuit against you.
You'll have to check your local regulations for this, I assume they vary. The other question is if you will get into trouble - well thats the same with using illegal games, movies, books, etc No, of course it isn't legal. But you should do it anyways. Books aren't exactly going to be cheaper when you get to the US, and that's not because the author has to make a living or any of those sob stories you hear from the propagandaists There is nothing unethical about not wanting to play a rigged game.
Just make sure you download the stuff in a subtle way don't tell anyone, use a VPN, etc. Short answer : No, it's usually not legal. Exceptions apply, but they are exceptions; one can assume it is illegal until proven otherwise.
Long answer : this basically comes down to whether it's legal to create a copy of copyrighted material. Downloading vs. Streaming means viewing the content without creating a copy. Since you are downloading books, you are creating a copy, and copying laws apply. It is worth noting that even if you are able to stream the book instead of download it, it is still illegal, as a result of a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice in the Filmspeler case.
Article 2 of the EU's copyright directive establishes that books are protected material emphasis mine :. Member States shall provide for the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction by any means and in any form, in whole or in part:. Such a situation cannot be regarded as satisfying the condition of the fair balance to be found between, on the one hand, the rights and interests of the recipients of the fair compensation and, on the other, those of those users.
The conclusion from all this is that, if the source of the copyrighted material acquired the material legally, then it is still possibly legal for you to make a copy of it other laws apply in that situation; what those laws are is outside the scope of this answer. However if the source acquired the copyrighted material illegally, then it is illegal under all circumstances for you to make a copy of it.
The next question is whether Libgen acquired the book legally. I'll consider it self-evident that for most books, they did not if they did, why would publishers be suing them?
Accordingly the conclusion is:. It is not legal to download copyrighted books from LibGen. You can still download if the copyright has expired e. See also: the answer to this question on the Law StackExchange , writen by someone more familiar with copyright law than me.
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JohnEye JohnEye 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. If I go to jstor. All rights reserved. No other license mentioned. If I go to sci-hub. One of them is legal and one is not, apparently. I assume that there is an agreement between the University of Chicago Press and JStor, so they can distribute it on the internet, but not one between the University of Chicago Press and Sci-Hub. Anyway, it's a private contract between these two parties that I cannot see and audit.
Am I supposed to ask for this contract every time I download a paper? Ricks demonstrates that the words and deeds of the first four presidents cannot be understood apart from their classical formation. Washington, without much formal education, nevertheless molded himself to the examples of Cato, Fabius, and Cincinnatus—and rejected that of Caesar.
Adams, who never let anyone forget how well-read he was, fancied himself an American Cicero. Jefferson, the exception to the rule, preferred the Greeks to the Romans, the Athenians to the Spartans, Epicureanism to Stoicism.
He argues that this classicism could not endure the reality of the Constitutional Convention, the rise of party politics, and the triumph of Jeffersonian democracy.
Though his conclusions are sometimes suspect, and his attention is given more generously to episodes of personal drama than to public documents, his book will entertain and inform any kind of reader, and will inspire scholars to consider more carefully the influence of the classics on the founders.
The Classical definition of a republic 5th Rev. By Lindsay Wheeler.
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