[frl8fxdfdf]

I work in a small research institute, and we cannot afford a Springer subscription (or any other for that matters). Just too expensive if your institute is small.

We skim through the abstracts and buy individual papers. It's a joke.. seriously. How are we supposed to work that way?

[stfu]

Or you could just get a graduate student who has access to these papers to intern with your institute.

[ixacto]

Every public university that I have been to so far has offered free journal access to non-students.

[reeses]

Our annual budget includes about 7% allocated to subscriptions and memberships and we're still stuck with guessing from abstracts and citations whether individual papers will be worth it. I'm OK when they're $10-15, but more than that and I have to think about how much time it's going to save.

Then again, it's annoying when we elect not to buy the papers, decide to publish our results, and...Ffffff.