morganism comments on Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: morganism 29 August 2016 09:58:01PM 6 points [-]

Academic Torrents site, for large scale database transfers

http://academictorrents.com/

Comment author: hg00 02 September 2016 11:12:13AM 0 points [-]

Thanks, I linked this comment from the piracy thread.

Comment author: WhySpace 30 August 2016 03:38:25AM *  6 points [-]

LWers who liked this may also like: http://sci-hub.bz/

About: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Basically, if you search for something and they don't have it, there's a huge network of scientists with access to pay-walled journals, and one of them will add a PDF. They've grown larger than any of the journal subscription companies, and have the world's largest collection of scientific papers.