PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don't have institutional access, it's significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub.

PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don't have institutional access, it's significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub. Enter title or DOI - done. To get the same article using uni logins you need to search via database e.g. Medline, then click on the source button. This takes you to different resources you can download from. Once you click through, you can then download the pdf, unless they've decided ePub is the default option in which case you have change this. Rarely, I've had to sign up to attempt to download an article but find once I've done this, my institution doesn't actually have access. The steps are reduced if you're on campus but not much better to be honest. Absolute mess.