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SciHub is quite valuable for independent researchers like me. But there are other ways to get free copies of articles: https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/ h
by leephillips 6y ago
SciHub is quite valuable for independent researchers like me. But there are other ways to get free copies of articles: https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/ https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/
- LockAndLol 6y agoOnce of the reasons SciHub exists is for the same reason torrent websites and DDLs exist: ease of access. Not everybody wants to go through 5 different options to get access to an article when a single step (aka SciHub) would do.
- leephillips 6y agoI understand that. But isn’t it useful to know about other avenues, in case SciHub is unavailable to you, or you just don’t want to use it?
- LockAndLol 6y agoI see. Indeed, it is useful.
- hirako2000 6y agoAnd having to pay double digit for a paper just to make one citation.
- blt 6y agoI think they meant that people with institutional access to journals still use sci-hub because it is more straightforward than dealing with all the institutional logins, which are especially annyoing when not on the institution's network.
- agumonkey 6y agoVery true. There were many open access initiative but you get to jump through hoops and links until you may get a functioning embeded pdf viewer (may require registration, data input, waiting time..) sci-hub has more ergonomics and uptime than all the others.