not personally, but friends have used it successfully. my gripe isn't that access is impossible, but that the barrier is too high. when i'm researching a new field, i read dozens of papers and it's hard to know from an abstract if a paywalled paper is worth hunting down. 1/3
working in industry, journal access was a huge problem that small companies are poorly positioned to address. overall i think this introduces a lot of friction, removes agency from authors, and slows down R&D to prop up the for-profit publishing industry 2/3
i don't have a magical solution but in my view we've integrated journals into scientific careers as a proxy for quality, and we've arrived at a place where journals are a big drag on the enterprise
“Barrier too high” sounds like my original point. Readers have access. It’s just not as quick and easy as they want. I don’t have much sympathy for that - not enough to warrant implementing OA and it’s assspciated negatives and externalities.
For my generation 👩🦳who started accessing papers by going to the library weekly to see the latest issues and then photocopying the paper or mailing a reprint request card😱, your point is well taken but your solutions take "effort" & folks just want to click and have the paper appear on their screen
Thus my use of the word “lazy”.
ILL doesn’t exist for industry/biotech does it? It’s about the Benjamin’s.
It’s just a library process. Doesn’t matter who YOU are.
ILL is super easy and fast