Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
by azalemeth on Friday July 09, 2021 @08:35AM
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Honestly, I'm very close to sending her a few btc. Although my employer would hate me for using it, sci hub is just an absolutely brilliant, internationally known godsend.
One of the things that publishers have started doing of late is just linking the "pdf" button to things that are not pdfs. I have legal access to basically every journal article I could ever want, but sci-hub provides a much better product: you actually just get the pdf with one button, and no telemetry crap either.
Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
by vixen99 on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:34AM
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Spot on! Thank you for that. Some work I do would be sunk without her and we know there are countless independent researchers who could say the same thing.
One of the things that publishers have started doing of late is just linking the "pdf" button to things that are not pdfs. I have legal access to basically every journal article I could ever want, but sci-hub provides a much better product: you actually just get the pdf with one button, and no telemetry crap either.
There's even an awesome grease/tampermonkey script to provide (small, inobtrusive) inline links to sci-hub here: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button.
She really is a saint. I hope we realise that....