Finding up to date scholary articles, but not paying for them.

[Genecks]

I believe it is unjust for people to pay money to read scholarly articles in a journal, such as Nature.

 

Does anyone know of a website that gives detailed scientific articles that are in similarity to the ones presented in Nature?

 

In other words, people publish articles and some of the articles go to Nature; I'm sure that these articles are somewhere in the Library of Congress, where people can access it; however, such a task is time consuming and oft comes with little result. Where else could a person go to obtain such articles freely?

 

I'm looking for database, that does not require pay, with a collection of these publications; I'm sure one must exist.

 

Must a person pay for all things these days? Whatever happened to a free education?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

http://www.arxiv.org

[Yggdrasil]

The Public Library of Science is a scholarly journal with completely open access content. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA also publishes a few open access articles on their website.

 

And, to answer your question, I will pose another question. Why do people these days expect everthing to be free? I applaud those who offer high quality products for free, but I also recognize that many products take a lot of time and money to produce, so it's unreasonable to expect people to just hand them away freely.

[swansont]

  Genecks said:

I believe it is unjust for people to pay money to read scholarly articles in a journal, such as Nature.

 

Go do the research yourself, then. Failing that, be prepared to pay for things that cost money to produce.

 

  Genecks said:

In other words, people publish articles and some of the articles go to Nature; I'm sure that these articles are somewhere in the Library of Congress, where people can access it; however, such a task is time consuming and oft comes with little result. Where else could a person go to obtain such articles freely?

 

Ummm, a library?