• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      Why wouldn’t they be? It’s not like they’re getting royalties from these journals…

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        3 months ago

        Not owning it can get them in trouble for sharing

        It depends on the publishing agreement

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      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.