Is it really more comprehensive? SciHub lets you get literally every paper that is available even if they haven't already obtained it. That's why it's so popular - you can put in some super-obscure paper from your niche field that only 1000 people in the world care about and it will still spit out a PDF.

I did once encounter a paper it didn't have - in those cases, you can try ICanHazPDF on Twitter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICanHazPDF

Because (shh) it's a secret. Survival through camouflage.

Yeah, its not like they overcharge for badly written books and also use a scheme with teachers where you have to buy books to pass in tests

Did you mean to respond somewhere else?

It's kind of complementary. I use sci-hub for everything with a DOI, and for books I use genesis.

Check out /scimag on your favorite libgen mirror.

Do you have a tor link? Also for scihub for that matter?

My go-to source for links to piracy websites that sometimes change URLs is Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Posting links publicly to resources that (allegedly) infringe on copyrights potentially gets users and/or HN in trouble. However, the article itself mentions at least one address you can access and, of course, there's is always the googling option.

This is like a semiotics game where we play with the signifier and the signified: http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/concep...

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