[ravel-bar-foo]

> HN sounds like cranks about this. In my podunk region 2 school I have access to all the journals I want, always have as a student.

Perhaps you are in computer science. As long as we're trading anecdotes, I went to one of the top universities in my country. I regularly came across articles that were not accessible from large professional societies such as IEEE, ACS, and SPIE. Now I work in a hospital, and they don't have subscriptions to anything non-medical! I have to go through sci-hub for access to my own papers!

[crazy_horse]

It sounds like to me to advance this debate, people could provide examples of journals that are regularly cited and their papers aren't easily accessible in some way.

[civilized]

[censored]

I could go on.

All of these journals' articles are sometimes available, especially for very highly cited articles, but not consistently.

Medical research is often found on some NIH website though. The NIH has their shit together. I think they make everyone publish open access in addition to whatever journal they submit to.

[gammarator]

You deleted your examples, but the Astrophysical Journal will be 100% gold open access starting in January: https://journals.aas.org/oa/

The NSF also requires that all the work it funds be deposited in a public archive: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/about...

[crazy_horse]

I went to Google Scholar and googled for articles from the top journal this year, picked a random article, the entire text is available.

https://en.x-mol.com/paper/article/1429645420640583680

I know that is a single article and I get your larger point. It's very much a field by field issue, in my field (I've been told it isn't a real science by HN, so no thanks sharing), I can't imagine me or the profs I know taking people seriously if they aren't making their stff available.