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Those take effort and time (hours or days) to make them work. Sci-Hub type solutions are the only way to make this work at scale.
by selfhoster11 5y ago
Those take effort and time (hours or days) to make them work. Sci-Hub type solutions are the only way to make this work at scale.
- Beldin 5y agoOh definitely it takes more effort than Sci-Hub. Should've mentioned that in the post. For a single paper, googling for the pdf, failing that, searching for author page / institutional repo doesn't take much effort. A few minutes, I'd guess. That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience. Mailing works as a last resort option. Honestly, part of the reason i jump through such hoops is to justify not including a paper. I have institutional access and all these options. If none of that suffices, I feel justified in considering the alleged article as not part of the scientific record.
- akiselev 5y ago> That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience. That's a fraction of the citations on most interesting papers. I'm not a practicing scientist (now or ever) so my access patterns are different but every time I explore a topic in academic journals that process becomes prohibitively expensive almost immediately. Even when I had institutional access it was a pain in the ass - without SciHub every doi is a game of subscription roulette.