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With open access everybody can access valuable scientific articles.

To reduce costs, difficulties with licenses and to make the scientific discussion possible for everybody, scientists and institutions are moving to the fast developing Open Access sector. Scientists are often valued by the amount and quality (where it´s published and the amount of citations) of their articles. To include this concept platforms like researchgate and scienceopen are using structures from social networks.

So in order to not only hear about the interpreted outcomes of studies we can now more and more read the whole paper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_access_journals

My favorites so far:
https://doaj.org/
http://oansuche.open-access.net/oansearch/
https://www.plos.org/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
http://journals.bmj.com/

Happy research 

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To reduce costs, difficulties with licenses and to make the scientific discussion possible for everybody, scientists and institutions are moving to the fast developing Open Access sector. Scientists are often valued by the amount and quality (where it´s published and the amount of citations) of their articles.

While the amount journals that provide an open access option have increased in recent times, it is substantially more expensive to publish an open access paper.

To include this concept platforms like researchgate and scienceopen are using structures from social networks.

I cannot speak about the platform scienceopen, but researchgate requires an affiliation to an institution (past affiliations might work if they can be verified, although I am not sure on this), and a lot of the time the institution will have journal subscriptions negating the need to send article requests on researchgate.

In addition to the various open access platforms you listed (thanks for that!), there are numerous members here who have an affiliation to an institution, and while I cannot speak for the others, if a member is looking for a paper they cannot access they are more than welcome to send me a PM and I will try retrieve it.

[dEEcor]

To reduce costs, difficulties with licenses and to make the scientific discussion possible for everybody, scientists and institutions are moving to the fast developing Open Access sector. Scientists are often valued by the amount and quality (where it´s published and the amount of citations) of their articles.

While the amount journals that provide an open access option have increased in recent times, it is substantially more expensive to publish an open access paper.

I meant the overall costs: Libraries and readers pay nothing so the publisher doesn´t make a huge business out of it which slows down the overall progress and connects it to financial power.

Aaron Swartz fought this business among other things and got charged by the MIT police, "carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release." for systematically downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR in a library. He wanted to push open access and in general give a lot of power back to the tax paying sheeps. He hang himself after leaving us RSS, Markdown, Reddit and Web.py.

Thanks for your offer