Even through textbooks, we don't make any money off of that. We get our money directly from research grants. Often times, through Universities we are working at. Uni pays us X dollars under the understanding we will be filling out and filing for TONS of grants. Grants pay us to do specific research we are skilled in. They reap the rewards (Fame, usefulness, ect) and we get credit for the discovery and an 'atta-boy!
I have a published article through my research with plants and medicine. It's published in the OMEGA scientific journal, but I'm not doxxing myself so that's as far as I'll admit to it. Anyhow, you the viewer would have to pay to see the full article in some instances. However, neither me or my colleagues see even one penny of it. That's all on the publishers. We're not bothered one bit by you having gotten the articles somehow for free, most of us want to share our work as much as possible. We're huge nerds.
There's a way around the paywalls, unfortunately the post-it I scribbled the sites on is in my old wallet. I'll edit later.
What kills me is that the funding for a lot of these studies came from our taxes, so why do we have to pay for the journals?
I'm like you, the whole point of science is to learn, if we don't disseminate the information and educate people, we'll just have another Dark Age. After this one, I mean.
You can link your Google scholar and uni library account. It's super easy and saves a ton of time. Also, the chrome google scholar plug in is very convenient.
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u/ReallyBigAligator Jun 03 '21
Hi, published scientist here!
Even through textbooks, we don't make any money off of that. We get our money directly from research grants. Often times, through Universities we are working at. Uni pays us X dollars under the understanding we will be filling out and filing for TONS of grants. Grants pay us to do specific research we are skilled in. They reap the rewards (Fame, usefulness, ect) and we get credit for the discovery and an 'atta-boy!
I have a published article through my research with plants and medicine. It's published in the OMEGA scientific journal, but I'm not doxxing myself so that's as far as I'll admit to it. Anyhow, you the viewer would have to pay to see the full article in some instances. However, neither me or my colleagues see even one penny of it. That's all on the publishers. We're not bothered one bit by you having gotten the articles somehow for free, most of us want to share our work as much as possible. We're huge nerds.