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Yeah, it seems a lot more well-known and I'd rather give my attention to something that isn't a copycat of hard work.
by kaladin-jasnah 4y ago
Yeah, it seems a lot more well-known and I'd rather give my attention to something that isn't a copycat of hard work.
- mattalex 4y agoUnpaywall has very little to do with scihub: This isn't about giving access to works that aren't publicly available, but instead about giving links to existing free uploads of the material by the author (i.e. on arxiv or his/her personal website).
- occamrazor 4y agoI wouldn’t call Unpaywall a copycat of sci-hub. Unpaywall helps finding links to the same article hosted elsewhere, e.g. on a preprint server or on the author’s page. It is more similar to specific features of Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar, with the small additional convenience of appearing directly on the article web page, instead of requiring a search.
- davis_running 4y agoI'd probably use Scihub for a quick download for a paper I'm interested in reading. And then if I wanted to share it publicly or with coworkers I might use Unpaywall.
- bouchard 4y agoJust yesterday Unpaywall found a publicly available copy of a 1980s article I was looking for and which Sci-hub didn't have.
- randomluck040 4y agoI don’t know why it should be a question of which one to use. Use both because both do different things.
- IanCal 4y agoScihub and unpaywall are entirely different endeavours.