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Every student I know already uses Sci-Hub anyway, either directly or through Citationsy Archives (https://citationsy.com/blog/new-feature-citationsy-archives/). All this does is push everyone further into piracy.


That may be a short-term solution but that also does nothing to tackle the rentism problem created by these multinationals. They still own and control the communication chanels and researchers are still obliged to serve the rentier's self-interests to see their papers published for the sake of their career.


Why do I need to sign up to something to use that software? It makes it seem like a scam. For example, look at this: https://www.zotero.org/

There I just download it...




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