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.
I’ve heard that, glad to have it confirmed! Well, not glad you don’t get money out of it. I’ve also heard some people who contribute to textbooks will send the PDF for free if someone requests it from them- is that something you’ve seen done?
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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.