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Traffic from US has always been huge anyway on scihub so thats going to be hard... Put you in the shoes of a grad student. What would you choose (ethics aside
by ta988 6y ago
Traffic from US has always been huge anyway on scihub so thats going to be hard...
Put you in the shoes of a grad student.
What would you choose (ethics aside) navigate to the website of your library do 20 clicks through a shitty interface to finally get a paper, and thats if you are lucky, or just paste a DOI and wait 5 seconds...
- hyperbovine 6y agoSaid behavior is not limited to grad students.
- ta988 6y agoYou're right I started with grad students as an example and after rewriting I lost that effect.
- asdff 6y agoLuckily nearly every university offers their library proxy as a bookmarklet. It's two clicks: 1 to hit the bookmarklet, another to hit login on my autofilled secure sign on page.
- ta988 6y agoThankfully some universities have a decently working ezproxy config but still. Then you hit the paywall, or the non working website from the crappy publisher that thinks people want to read pdfs as their enhanced-pdf and require two other clicks to get a real pdf, during that time the 5 (not kidding look at what those pages load!) trackers are loading...
- tasogare 6y agoMy university does (a top national one) and it’s still less reliable and UX friendly than SciHub.
- herpderperator 6y agoWhat's a DOI?
- pizzicato 6y agoDigital Object Identifier. It's a permanent URL to avoid link rot, really useful for scientific articles. https://library.uic.edu/help/article/1966/what-is-a-doi-and-how-do-i-use-them-in-citations https://library.uic.edu/help/article/1966/what-is-a-doi-and-...
- DominikPeters 6y agoWhen on mobile/iPad, my university (Harvard) makes me two-factor for every paper.