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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a Twitter not a cop I'll do what I want

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don't get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they'll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I know someone who did that, got the paper and a whole load of infodump on the topic

Some people are extremely happy to share their obscure knowledge

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely don't use mobilism for a solid archive of epubs and audiobooks. It'd be awful if people had access to free and enriching entertainment

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

That and z-library. I hope people are careful to steer free from these sites/apps that work amazingly well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is what professors in school and universities say when you need to use specific book but even they know it's so damn expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

My biology professor said, this is the required textbook available from the college bookstore. And here's how the syllabus matches up with the OpenStax book

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you haven’t bailed from the platform completely you certainly shouldn’t join the facebook group “ask for pds from people with institutional access” either

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago

Scientific 👏 journals 👏 are 👏 a 👏 scam 👏 industry 👏

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is sci-hub updated again? I mean its good it still works for papers older than a few years, but does it for papers from the last few years?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It has sort of merged with Anna's Archives which is hit and miss for recent stuff, but still the best out there. Their Sci-Hub proxy always works.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago

Anna’s library should also never be used

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The amount of money my wife and I saved earning our degrees with libgen is in the thousands

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

You only needed two books for your degrees?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

I always appreciated the professors that looked out for us and warned us of the places not to get any textbooks from, with links so we could recognize what to avoid, of course.

Then we'd get a professor that gave up doing anything and had us buy a $200, license (with a $200 textbook) to an online course that taught and graded his class.