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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 17 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours 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

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 23 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] em2@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 47 points 16 hours ago

Anna’s library should also never be used

[-] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 31 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 43 points 17 hours 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.

[-] introvertcatto 9 points 14 hours ago

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.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 10 hours 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

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] em2@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago

You only needed two books for your degrees?

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 7 points 16 hours 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

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

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?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 16 hours 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.

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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