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I 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
by occamrazor 4y ago
I 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.