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    3 years ago

    Anyone knows how sci-hub gains access to all these articles? Do volunteers with access upload the research to them? Or do they bypass the authorization process of paywalled sites?

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      I tried to contact her to share papers I have individually that are not available on Sci-Hub, but I haven’t received an answer yet. Some capitalist academic publishing companies have contracts with universities allowing its students to use proxies to access paid articles. I believe she uses these proxies to give access to some articles