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How to access full-text research papers for free!


James Cain

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I'm all for free access to academic papers. Interlibrary loa is great but a lot of people don't have access to it. Here are two methods that actually work that anyone can use!

  1. 1. Sci-Hub. It looks like a weird Russian scam or something but it honestly works, and has a great Chrome extension to automate the process.
    http://allanino.me/blog/everything-else/do-you-know-sci-hub/
  1. 2. Using ‪#‎canihazpdf‬ on Twitter to request papers.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34572462

And of course what would academia be without some deeper scientific analysis on the issue?

"Bypassing Interlibrary Loan Via Twitter: An Exploration of ‪#‎icanhazpdf‬ Requests" (PDF)
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Gardner.pdf

 

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Wow James,

 

Those are two great solutions - much easier than bothering Al Pater to send me the pdf of a paper!  :)xyz

 

I tried the first one via the Chrome browser plug-in and it worked the very first time - the not-normally-available-to-me paper popped right up.

 

Hopefully it won't be taken down anytime soon...

 

Here is a BBC article on the Twitter hashtag #ICANHAZPDF (play on 'I can have pdf') discussing the legality / ethics of scientific paper sharing via this service.

 

--Dean

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