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Even those who have licensed access to journals thank goodness for Sci-Hub, at least I do. It is often much easier to feed Sci-Hub a DOI and get the paper after
by Yetanfou 9y ago
Even those who have licensed access to journals thank goodness for Sci-Hub, at least I do. It is often much easier to feed Sci-Hub a DOI and get the paper after negotiating a simple CAPTCHA than it is to log in through some portal so a cookie gets set which tells Wiley that this user has access to these, but not those journals today (but maybe tomorrow, or not), use their search feature to find the correct volume and then finally find the link which hopefully shows an open lock.
In this it is comparable to those copy protection schemes of old which made paying users jump through hoops while the pirates just had smooth sailing all the way. Arrrrrr!
- posterboy 9y agoThe DOI should take you directly to the article-page. Sci-Hub works through that mechanism.