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[–] 172 points 1 year ago (41 children)

So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!

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    [–] 124 points 1 year ago

    If scientists didn't have to pay obscene prices to view articles, those articles are cited more often. Who would have thought?

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  • [–] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I personally like scihub because it's easier to get papers off of rather than going through my library's portal for a lot of journals.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Dunno what Sci-Hub is, but most researchers are happy to send you a copy of their paper on request - and this is completely legal. Their email address is usually on the abstract.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have never ever gotten a response from a researcher :(

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's too bad - I've seen posts from scientists, or people who claim to be, saying what I said.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Noted. Will upload my future papers on SciHub myself. /j. Or am I? Vsauce music plays Did you know vegetables are a social construct?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't it odd that researchers who should be pros at caring about and finding the most correct metrics for every topic are obsessed with a proxy for quality that is just about the most disjoint possible? It should be embarrassing.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Unfortunately, it's commonly not researchers that create academic circles, it is publishers and other entities with vested interest in making us publish more garbage.

    Scientific world is corrupt as hell.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don’t know if it’s just my field or if I’m searching wrong, but I get almost nothing when I look for papers about German grammar and language instruction. Is this mostly for more mainstream/hard science papers?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    I can't speak for your field or language but someone has to upload it. Content in German and about grammar sounds very specific. Maybe there's a lack of interest on scihub. Ask around in your circle where they share/get their articles

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Idk if itll help but have you tried annas archive? It mirrors multiple science piracy sites.

    Edit:do you mean pedagogical materials or research? Cause I don't think you'll be lucky if it's the former.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have tried it, but also not had any luck. I am looking for research, but it’s still a really narrow field, tbh. Even in Germany, I think there are only a handful of DaF/aZ postgrad programs.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    So yeah it's probably your field! Sorry about that. Fwiw I don't think the problem is that it isn't 'hard science', I find it easy to find philosophical works (German, English and French language ones). It's probably just too niche.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My input: I've never searched for papers in Scihub directly. I usually find them off Google scholar or something, and then put the paywalled URL or the DOI (an identifier you can usually find in the paywalled website) in Scihub to go to that paper. I don't think search capabilities are in scihub's scope.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is why you put the preprint on arxiv

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    She knows not to travel. The organizer.

    But tbh - even zlibrary creators got away from Argentina, they should make a movie about it one day.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago
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