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Is that true? I thought phd students typically had access to these via the (expensive) agreements universities have. I thought sci-hub was for everyone else?

oefrha 4y ago
Lots of researchers outside the first world may actually fall into the everyone else category. Not all institutions are flush with money to sign the extortionate licensing deals. Gp comment is definitely a stretch though.
jarbus 4y ago
As someone part of a university, I don’t even bother trying to sign in with my organization, since the probability I have “legal” access to a drm-free pdf of a resource by signing in is lower than if I just try it on sci hub.
sbaiddn 4y ago
Sci hub is significantly easier to use than any legitimate university library. Also, university researchers have been sharing their institutes' access to papers for ever. No university subscribes to all journals. 15 years ago it was quick email to your undergrad mate asking if their uni subscribes to a particular journal. I was at a top-10 ranked US eng school and this was the case. 25 years ago it was a call and a fax. Before then a photocopier.
- asdff 4y ago
  Most university libraries have a proxy bookmarklet. Go to site with paywall > hit bookmarklet > login > no paywall. zotero will even detect this bookmarklet and run it automatically after you've used it the first time for a given site. It even works for stuff like using your university library's access to newspapers like nyt. At this point if you are going to r1 you have access to everything under the sun.
  - elashri 4y ago
    And many others will force you to connect to VPN if you happen to be connected from outside the university network. Which in most cases a requirement of agreements with those publishers.
  - fatneckbeard 4y ago
    "if you are going to r1" exactly my entire point. people inside the tower just do not understand, which is why scihub came from someone outside of it

oefrha 4y ago

Lots of researchers outside the first world may actually fall into the everyone else category. Not all institutions are flush with money to sign the extortionate licensing deals. Gp comment is definitely a stretch though.

jarbus 4y ago

As someone part of a university, I don’t even bother trying to sign in with my organization, since the probability I have “legal” access to a drm-free pdf of a resource by signing in is lower than if I just try it on sci hub.

sbaiddn 4y ago

Sci hub is significantly easier to use than any legitimate university library. Also, university researchers have been sharing their institutes' access to papers for ever. No university subscribes to all journals. 15 years ago it was quick email to your undergrad mate asking if their uni subscribes to a particular journal. I was at a top-10 ranked US eng school and this was the case. 25 years ago it was a call and a fax. Before then a photocopier.

asdff 4y ago
Most university libraries have a proxy bookmarklet. Go to site with paywall > hit bookmarklet > login > no paywall. zotero will even detect this bookmarklet and run it automatically after you've used it the first time for a given site. It even works for stuff like using your university library's access to newspapers like nyt. At this point if you are going to r1 you have access to everything under the sun.
- elashri 4y ago
  And many others will force you to connect to VPN if you happen to be connected from outside the university network. Which in most cases a requirement of agreements with those publishers.
- fatneckbeard 4y ago
  "if you are going to r1" exactly my entire point. people inside the tower just do not understand, which is why scihub came from someone outside of it