I'm a person that thinks it's absolutely ridiculous that you run into many pay walls for research that was funded by government or from a public hospital. I believe in the complete free dissemination of healthcare treatment knowledge - the current best practice. Having the knowledge makes us better caregivers, patients and advocates. Not having the information makes us a slave to the system.
Here are two websites that you can use to get free research articles.
Step 1. Find the research article that is behind a paywall. What you will see is the DOI. The DOI will look something like this - DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1503747
Step 2. Get the DOI and put it into one of these two web sites. booksc.xyz/ or sci-hub.tw/
Step 3. Enjoy the "free research" that you PAID for through taxation or insurance costs.
If the DOI does not work, just copy/paste the entire URL into the search bar. So you can just "nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/N... use something like that. I would try the DOI first.
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Thanks, but be careful, you may end up like Aron Schwartz. An great example of your federal government doing what it now does best: suppressing any and all dissent.
wow, totally forgot about Aaron. was thinking his life would make a great movie, then found the documentary had already been done. but a hollywoodized version? aha!
Dear Cujoe, Just read the Wikipedia article you referenced on Aaron Schwartz. I didn't know anything about him but after reading the articles about all of his accomplishments and zeal for changing Society ( internet culture), it doesn't seem likely to me that he would have killed himself. I feel very skeptical. Turning down that plea may have signaled that he would have used a trial as a platform for his beliefs.
I have managed to obtain research articles by writing a brief note to the corresponding author outlining the relevance to my case and requesting a copy.
Wow it works. Many thanks. I used it to get the article "Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer: AUA Guideline Amendment 2018." Got it on sci-hub. But first had to pass a non-robot test, the instructions were in Russian. Probably just my computer since TW is Taiwan. (I remember when, decades ago, Taiwan did not recognize print copyrights and expensive text books and such could be had there for a song.)
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