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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.
I have never ever gotten a response from a researcher :(
That’s too bad - I’ve seen posts from scientists, or people who claim to be, saying what I said.
Why wouldn’t they be? It’s not like they’re getting royalties from these journals…
Not owning it can get them in trouble for sharing
It depends on the publishing agreement
Adding up to days in the best scenarios to any research study when scihub or arxiv cuts it down to seconds. Because no one cares about time.
If scientists didn’t have to pay obscene prices to view articles, those articles are cited more often. Who would have thought?
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.
One of us.
yes
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?
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.
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.
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.
