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Back when I was a student, I never like ResearchGate: they forced you to create an account, then upload some random rubbish PDFs just to get credits to download
by dikei 5y ago
Back when I was a student, I never like ResearchGate: they forced you to create an account, then upload some random rubbish PDFs just to get credits to download what you want.
- captn3m0 5y agoThe only few times I’ve thanked RG is when an obscure PDF was no longer on the university or author’s website by RG had a copy cancelling out the link rot. Other than those few times, I’ve never found it useful.
- dikei 5y agoTruth, I think I only used them one or twice to download some papers with attractive names that couldn't be found anywhere. It turned out the papers were quite bad, I figured they wouldn't be so hard to find otherwise.