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How does one even use Sci-Hub? The search functionality is "temporarily unavailable" and Google seems to have not indexed the site. Find the abstract elsewher

by TekMol 6y ago

How does one even use Sci-Hub? The search functionality is "temporarily unavailable" and Google seems to have not indexed the site. Find the abstract elsewhere and then use the DOI to find it on Sci-Hub?

someguyorother 6y ago
>Find the abstract elsewhere and then use the DOI to find it on Sci-Hub? That's pretty much it. Suppose you want to read a paper on memes, so you search scholar.google.com for "memes". Then let's say you find https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/etc.10.1.06lou https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/etc.10... (I just chose one at random). Going to the link gives you just the abstract. This one happens to have a full text link, but suppose it didn't. Then you'd go to your favorite sci-hub site (e.g. sci-hub.tw) and paste the URL into the "enter URL..." field, and the paper shows up.
grive 6y ago
Yes, pretty much. I find an interesting paper, note its DOI, go to sci-hub to download it. Never tried to search on sci-hub itself.
nisa 6y ago
The few times I've needed it due my uni not having access to a paper using the DOI worked - there is also reddit.com/r/scholar
amatic 6y ago
For me, this website is usually working, with relatively good search http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ Though, I often search on scholar and then c/p the title to scihub. Also, http://z-lib.org http://z-lib.org has a good search function, both for books and articles.
eythian 6y ago
I actually quite like using the telegram bot. I just send it a URL or title or whatever and it replies with a PDF.
- BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
  Oh, what's the name of the bot? I like using Sci-hub a lot but it gets pretty slow sometimes, the bot would be much more convenient.
  - lnyan 6y ago
    Perhaps this one https://telegram.me/scihubot https://telegram.me/scihubot
    - eythian 6y ago
      That's the one, yep.

by TekMol 6y ago

someguyorother 6y ago

>Find the abstract elsewhere and then use the DOI to find it on Sci-Hub? That's pretty much it. Suppose you want to read a paper on memes, so you search scholar.google.com for "memes". Then let's say you find https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/etc.10.1.06lou https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/etc.10... (I just chose one at random). Going to the link gives you just the abstract. This one happens to have a full text link, but suppose it didn't. Then you'd go to your favorite sci-hub site (e.g. sci-hub.tw) and paste the URL into the "enter URL..." field, and the paper shows up.

grive 6y ago

Yes, pretty much. I find an interesting paper, note its DOI, go to sci-hub to download it. Never tried to search on sci-hub itself.

nisa 6y ago

The few times I've needed it due my uni not having access to a paper using the DOI worked - there is also reddit.com/r/scholar

amatic 6y ago

For me, this website is usually working, with relatively good search http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ Though, I often search on scholar and then c/p the title to scihub. Also, http://z-lib.org http://z-lib.org has a good search function, both for books and articles.

eythian 6y ago

I actually quite like using the telegram bot. I just send it a URL or title or whatever and it replies with a PDF.

BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Oh, what's the name of the bot? I like using Sci-hub a lot but it gets pretty slow sometimes, the bot would be much more convenient.
- lnyan 6y ago
  Perhaps this one https://telegram.me/scihubot https://telegram.me/scihubot
  - eythian 6y ago
    That's the one, yep.