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- Legality of downloading books from websites such as Library Genesis
In my home country, I have used such websites as Library Genesis and BookFi to download textbooks, from such publishers as Springer etc , which are otherwise either not available or available at exorbitantly high prices in my home country Is it legal or illegal for graduate students to download books from such websites?
- publications - I downoaded articles from libgen (didnt know was . . .
I did download some articles from libgen and by then I didn't know it wasn't right to do so, well some people say that there's no problem but honestly I think it is and I'm scared for what this art
- Why did Sci Hub stop uploading papers? - Academia Stack Exchange
A court order required Sci-Hub to pause new uploads as part of the ongoing case However, Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub's founder, later indicated that the restriction had expired, and the site has reportedly resumed adding articles For accessing academic papers, you may also explore Library Genesis (LibGen), a widely used alternative:
- What are the consequences of using Sci-Hub? - Academia Stack Exchange
A student of mine has told me about Sci-Hub, where people can download copyrighted scholarly articles for free I have cautioned him that it is illegal, but he challenged me asking me what would b
- Is it an offence to ask a professor to share a soft copy of their . . .
Have you considered asking your librarian to buy a physical copy for the library? (You might be surprised by how much librarians can value that kind of feedback ) Or, alternatively, suggesting to the professor that they donate a physical copy to the library?
- Is there a way to search for more recent papers than the one Im . . .
A simple way that I usually follow to find newer papers about the same topic is using google scholar Google scholar gives you the ability to find papers that cited the paper you are interested in, and those papers are usually published after the paper you are interest in has been published (i e more recent work) For the example you provided in your comment, google scholar gives me 57
- Will a journal reject a paper for citing an Encyclopedia?
No If other secondary sources like review articles are acceptable, then an encyclopedia is acceptable If the information is a well-documented, undisputed territorial boundary, then secondary sources should be adequate Personally, I have never heard of a paper being rejected for citing the wrong type of source in my field of research If the source is wrong or irrelevant, that could be a
- Is there an online engine like Google Scholar which allows me to sort . . .
Yes—while Google Scholar itself does not support sorting search results by citation count, there's a well-maintained open-source workaround: sort-google-scholar is a Python tool that queries Google Scholar and sorts the results by total citations or citations per year It's particularly useful for identifying the most influential papers within a given search term or timeframe Key features
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