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Interestingly, when I was still in university, I never used Sci-hub at all. I can download almost any paper using school's network (or VPN) since the library ha
by thrdbndndn 5y ago
Interestingly, when I was still in university, I never used Sci-hub at all. I can download almost any paper using school's network (or VPN) since the library have subscriptions for basically all the major publishers.
I only started to use it occasionally once I've graduated (but I didn't really do any formal research any more.)
- VortexDream 5y agoInterestingly, every student I know uses sci-hub.
- chakkepolja 5y agoInterestingly it's almost necessary in third world.
- eldaisfish 5y agoperhaps you're aware of this but sci-hub solves a second problem in addition to simply access - ease of use. Using a library's system requires a proxy or VPN or a credential verification of some sort. Sci-hub requires the title of the paper. that's it.
- thrdbndndn 5y agoYou do need to enable VPN if you're off campus, yes, but that's it. It's super simple, you don't need to go though library's website or anything. I use Google Scholar search exclusively to find papers and you can directly click the link to open the paper (and then download). Constantly copying pasting title, URL or DOI into sci-hub is actually a hassle in this respect when you're just browsing around (I guess there must be extensions or userscripts to make it better, though).