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Anecdotally, I know some scientists who prefer Sci-Hub even when their institution has a subscription to the journal. The login procedures (and possibly VPN setups when working from home) are too much work when Sci-Hub is immediate.

I'm sure that publishers will try and fight back, just like with music copying.



To paraphrase Bill Wurtz.

Open. The journals. Stop. Having them be closed.


Now we just need huge boats. With guns. Gunboats.


Exactly, many people prefer convenience over nonsense features in name of protections, copyrights, etc..


I would always prefer to get the PDF in the legit way unless sometimes I encountered journals that my institution do not subscribe to. Only reason for that: to reduce the burden to scihub servers.




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