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I refuse to sign up to Academia and ResearchGate, for-profit companies that are littering indexes with pay-wall accessible PDFs that should be available through
by neumann 9y ago
I refuse to sign up to Academia and ResearchGate, for-profit companies that are littering indexes with pay-wall accessible PDFs that should be available through institutional login, or the author's website. And now, through sci-hub.
Google scholar paired with sci-hub has become the fastest way to access papers given that institutional subscriptions are scatter gun.
1. Find paper on scholar.google.com
2. Find PDF or pay-wall
3. Click the sci-hub bookmarklet
If I want to discover papers from my field, I talk to my colleagues. Another wall-garden I do not need.