Is Sci-Hub just a handy tool for accessing papers? Sure. But there’s more to it. @leonido and I argue that this illegal yet legitimate service played a crucial role in the broader #OpenAccess transformation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11 (English translation of a paper previously published in German)

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Saw it a few days ago, but had no time to check it out, yet. Thanks, this will be an additional push to go and give it a try!

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Looks like it can't really supercede sci-hub as it only searches what is at sci-hub? If sci-hub doesn't have it, AA won't find it, either?

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AA have 13 mln more papers(98 vs 85mln), as it also mirrors libgen.

But, mostly, yeah, if there is no article on sci-hub, probably AA does not have it too.

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