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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anna’s library should also never be used

[–] Eheran 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, is that a libgen and scihub combo?

[–] AtariDump 9 points 1 day ago

You’ll just have to find out

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don't get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they'll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

I know someone who did that, got the paper and a whole load of infodump on the topic

Some people are extremely happy to share their obscure knowledge

[–] HexadecimalSky 48 points 1 day ago

I always appreciated the professors that looked out for us and warned us of the places not to get any textbooks from, with links so we could recognize what to avoid, of course.

Then we'd get a professor that gave up doing anything and had us buy a $200, license (with a $200 textbook) to an online course that taught and graded his class.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Scientific 👏 journals 👏 are 👏 a 👏 scam 👏 industry 👏

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely don't use mobilism for a solid archive of epubs and audiobooks. It'd be awful if people had access to free and enriching entertainment

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That and z-library. I hope people are careful to steer free from these sites/apps that work amazingly well.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of money my wife and I saved earning our degrees with libgen is in the thousands

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

You only needed two books for your degrees?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

This is what professors in school and universities say when you need to use specific book but even they know it's so damn expensive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you haven’t bailed from the platform completely you certainly shouldn’t join the facebook group “ask for pds from people with institutional access” either

[–] Eheran 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It’s been there quite a long time:(

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 1 day ago

It's a Twitter not a cop I'll do what I want

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is sci-hub updated again? I mean its good it still works for papers older than a few years, but does it for papers from the last few years?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It has sort of merged with Anna's Archives which is hit and miss for recent stuff, but still the best out there. Their Sci-Hub proxy always works.