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by flexagoon 26 days ago
> Isn’t that what preprints are for?

The use of preprints unfortunately really varies by field, in some (like computer science) everything has an arXiv preprint, while in some barely anyone publishes them

> sci-hub which is normative now

Scihub hasn't been updated for a long time, it is completely useless for any new papers and only exists off of name recognition. STC Nexus is where it's at.