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This community is for requesting and sharing specific articles available in various databases.

We’re unaffiliated to r/Scholar, although we have the same goal. This community was created due to the dislike of what reddit has become.

/c/Scholar Rules

A valid DOI/ISBN/PMID is required.
A valid URL is required.
No misuse of /c/Scholar's services.
This community is maintained by volunteers who go out of their way to help provide material. Please respect their time and assistance. If you make a request, please do not abandon it.
No requests to help find sources for research.
No requests for things easily obtainable elsewhere
eg: books available on LibGen, articles already on SciHub, etc.
No digital piracy.
Requesting financial compensation can be considered digital piracy in some cases. This includes selling or distribution of any material provided to you from /c/Scholar. If we find cases of digital piracy, it will be removed regardless of the intent.
Note: Requests or offers of financial compensation through PMs or chats are beyond our scope of moderation and should be dutifully denied.

Posting Guidelines

Title:

Required format: [Tag] Title and Author(s)

Possible tags: [Article], [Book]. [Chapter], [Supplement], [Thesis], [Standard], [Other], or [Meta]

Body:

Please only replace "insert identifier here/insert link to paywall here". Leave everything else alone, including punctuation.

DOI/PMID/ISBN: insert identifier here

[URL]( insert link to paywall here )

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Requesting? READ HERE!

Chances are high that what you're looking for is already available! Looking for an article? Search Libgen for its DOI, PMID or title, or Sci-Hub for its DOI, PMID or URL. Looking for a book? Search Libgen or BookZZ for its ISBN or title. More info on Libgen and Sci-Hub can be found here.

Be sure to include all needed info in your request: full citation; DOI, PMID or ISSN if you ask for article, DOI or ISBN if you ask for book/chapter; link to paywall or link to PubMed or WorldCat record.

Use Crossref for metadata search; use doi.org to resolve a DOI name.

Flair your post as Found once it's found!

If your request isn't urgent, please try an interlibrary loan (ILL) instead. ILL avoids potential copyright issues and lets libraries know which subscriptions are useful.

Fulfill some requests while you wait for yours!

Fulfilling? READ HERE!

Please be aware of copyright issues and fair use.

To share files, zippyshare.com, transfer.sh, and we.tl are free and reliable. These websites are just a suggestion, you may use another service not on this list.

Be aware that many journal sources embed identifying information into the PDF.

Thanks for helping your fellow scholars!

Please note that everything on this community is provided under fair use. As such, please do not sell, wrongfully distribute, use or abuse any services that you may receive from users on this site. Violations may result in suspension or banning of a particular user or this entire service. Please be respectful of the rights of copyright owners and other users of this service.

If you hold the rightful copyright to any material that is linked here, please message the mods if you would like to have the material removed.

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[Meta] Welcome to /c/Scholar (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by octogenarian_potato@lemmy.ml to c/scholar@lemmy.ml

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Let’s face it, Reddit’s probably never going to return to what it once was. Most of the subs that haven’t either died or changed their rules are run by "power-mods" that "moderate" well over what someone can manage.

r/Scholar was one of my favourite subs. One of the reasons I was able to contribute so much to that sub was because I made a program that scanned the sub and made a list of the open requests, detecting those that were available on LibGen or SciHub. I had another program that automatically uploaded it to a file hosting platform, made a mirror to LibGen, and commented on the post in question.

With Reddit’s API change, that “bot” (I wouldn’t call it a bot per se, as it had to be run manually) will stop working, it’d take too long to scan the posts to be usable given the new restrictions on the rate limiting of the API. If this community gains traction (and if I have free time to code), I’ll port those programs to work with the Lemmy API.

Although this community is not affiliated with r/Scholar, if the mods there want to port r/Scholar to here and help me moderate, I’ll welcome them with open arms. The more, the merrier.

Thank you for reading my rant/introduction to this community.

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[–] bremen15@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It would be useful to have the currently working sci-hub URL here in the meta, without it being found by search engines. How to do that?