Any sources to get scientific papers for my own interest? Doesn’t really matter if available as torrents or on the web to view. Thanks in advance!
you might want to Google “Alexandra Elbakyan”, for research of course 👀
sci-hub.se will get you most of papers
libgen.rs will get you most of books
arxiv has a narrow scope, there’s also biorxiv.org but both are for preprints which is a little bit different thing
Many publications on arxiv (or biorxiv or medrxiv, etc) are early drafts, or otherwise not scientifically rigorous and wouldn’t be published in an actual journal due to failing peer review. Take what you find there with a grain of salt.
Although you should also take any single peer-reviewed article with a grain of salt as well.
You could try Sci-Hub and LibGen. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can always email the authors or other scholars who may have access to the paper you’re interested in. A less alternative site would be arXiv, but it just has preprints.
I’ve heard you can just email one of the authors of the paper, if you’re looking for a specific one.
