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Sci hub is significantly easier to use than any legitimate university library. Also, university researchers have been sharing their institutes' access to paper
by 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 agoMost 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 agoAnd 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