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Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 months ago

As someone in science that has used this many times, I can't emphasize enough how much this has accelerated research in the modern era. I am so grateful for her work.

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Yep, I just found out about it recently because I was doing research on a project. I had heard, but never explored or looked into, sci-hub. I had no idea about it. I don't know how I missed it all of these years!

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Sadly no longer updated but I think libgen and some other services are filling the gaps.

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was bummed to find out it's no longer updated. But there are so many articles that it's still helpful and great. And she still is holding the flame by keeping it up. I'm checking out libgen right now actually.