What would an example search be?
Searching for the title of a paper also seems to work really well.
Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
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#12What would an example search be?
I searched "particle" (as in physics etc...) and got "article not found". What's up with that?
The point of sci-hub is that it fetches specific articles for you, not to be a search engine. Find an article you want - for example, the PolderCast paper[0] - then enter a link or the DOI for that article, and it'll find the paper most of the time.
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#13Sci-Hub represents everything that is good about the internet.
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#14What would an example search be?
In addition to other suggestions here, you can also simply add ".sci-hub.cc" to the end of the domain part of the URL when confronted with a paywalled paper.
I find this the easiest interface. It allows me to search using standard search engines (PubMed, Google Scholar etc) the duck into sci-hub as required.
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#15It scares me actually, when trying a search I got this: поиск временно недоступен. пожалуйста, используйте DOI или прямые ссылки search temporarily unavailable, please use DOI or direct links If you're using Google chrome, you can install Sci-Hub extension to use search. To do this: Download the extension and unpack it. You get the "Sci-Hub" folder with code. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions, or just o…
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#16What would an example search be?
In addition to other suggestions here, you can also simply add ".sci-hub.cc" to the end of the domain part of the URL when confronted with a paywalled paper. I find this the easiest interface. It allows me to search using standard search engines (PubMed, Google Scholar etc) the duck into sci-hub as required.
I have a bookmarklet for this: javascript:document.location.hostname=document.location.hostname + ".sci-hub.cc";
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#17For heavy users (like me) I suggest using one of many "implementations" of a auto-scihub bookmark here: https://github.com/nfahlgren/scihub_bookmark
It is a great addition to an otherwise clean tor-browser...
This is not mine - but looking at the code you should notice fairly quickly that it is somehow trivial. Note also that it may be necessary to change the URL if necessary.
Lastly it should be said that sci-hub does indeed need donations - it is essentially a one-woman project and she can always use some lawyer-funds...
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#18ELI5: I'm not from academia so please help me understand. Are researchers who publish these [firewalled/copyrighted] papers likely to lose out on their earnings if this is 'open-sourced'? I'm honestly asking as I try to think through the whole 'open-source' paradigm and how it fits in a (mostly) capitalist, libertarian world. Thanks!
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#19ELI5: I'm not from academia so please help me understand. Are researchers who publish these [firewalled/copyrighted] papers likely to lose out on their earnings if this is 'open-sourced'? I'm honestly asking as I try to think through the whole 'open-source' paradigm and how it fits in a (mostly) capitalist, libertarian world. Thanks!
The researchers will not lose anything, only the publishers. Researchers are paid by (usually) universities, and often post preprints i.e. the paper without the publishers formatting, since wider dissemination is usually better.
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#20For those who use Telegram, there is a Telegram bot, where you send it the DOI or the URL and it sends you the PDF -- so much easier than legally accessing the file.