My strategy typically is using https://scholar.google.com/ to search for interesting papers
Copy the link, or the DOI and drop it into SciHub and you will have a complete copy of the paper.
SciHub will always be a better resource for learning science than any science journalism from the Guardian or wherever. And if you find an interesting paper, and don’t understand it, or have questions, or want to know what kind of paper it is, or if it has merit: share it and we can discuss it.
Using this strategy after Uni I was able to re-learn all the new physics and chemistry discoveries that happened after I lost access to my school’s papers.
At Uni I spent most of my time reading scientific papers and in the library reading esoteric books; but even then you got access to a fraction of the papers since your school only gets subscriptions to a limited number of places.
Her project was so successful she had to go on the run; not sure if she still is.
Even at universities like Berlin’s Frei Universtat they tell their students to use SciHub because you get more access to what is literally everyone’s inheritance of scientific knowledge
Another character in this story is Aaron Swartz creator of RSS, and Markdown (Used in this software)
He is essentially a martyr because he was caught copying every paper from JSTOR, which actually isn’t even papers that are copyright protected its just a service that holds papers. But the FBI wanted to make an example of him and facing decades in prison and being a computer expert, he would be labeled and hacker and get solitary, which is literally torture (even according to the UN).
So he took his own life before he went to jail and we lost a kind soul, and a truly great mind. And he had only just begun his contributions to the open source community and made tools we all still use today.
RSS? If you listen to podcasts you are using a tool he created.
So don’t let these people who risked their lives, or lost them, to get you access to all this scientific knowledge that rightfully belongs to everyone; and not use the tools that are available to you. Scientific papers will teach you so much more about the world than news.google or any other random tech site.
Look up articles on Phosphorus and learn about how the European who discovered it collected pee from everyone he knew like the weirdest guy ever but then discovered something that significantly changed the world. Or find out about femto-second lasers, because femto-second clocks are cheap and you can build one!
I brought this up during a Psych lecture once. It was very fun to advertise piracy to my classmates lol.
If we call copying piracy what are we going to call it when I finally get check off one of my life goals of stealing packages being moved by drones? I might even dress up like a pirate when I do it.
I guess that would make you a Sky Pirate! 🏴☠️
🥰 🏴☠️
I am still in school, so I have access to many journals through it. The journals I can’t get access to through school, I look at via Sci-Hub. Fortunately, most journals in my field (in my country) recently switched to an open-access format, so I’ll have to use Sci-Hub only for foreign journals.
Yeah, open access has really taken off since I went to Uni, there was maybe PLOS if I remember correctly. And no SciHub. So I would find something I wanted to read and then had to ask friends at other schools to get it for me.
May I ask what you are studying? And at what University?
So I would find something I wanted to read and then had to ask friends at other schools to get it for me.
I still have to do this sometimes. A few times I even scanned a whole article from a physical journal for a friend, because it was faster and more hassle-free than the interlibrary loan.
May I ask what you are studying? And at what University?
I’m studying linguistics at MUNI in Brno.
This may not interest you but I was just looking around open directories b/c I have a habit of doing that to schools to see whats exposed.
Found a live recording that is pretty awesome from your school
Howdy! I love Sci-hub! I’ve been searching Lemmy to try and find a scihub specific community. But maybe you’re in the know? Have you had any luck getting papers while using iOS? I’ve been getting this issue lately where the file won’t load. Not sure if it’s just me or a bigger thing?
