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I always wished Scihub had a browse feature

It relies on knowing what paywall I want to circumvent with some paper's ID

When really I just want to browse

I'm not in academia and I feel like everyone salivating over Scihub don't realize this use case, because they already know what publications they don't have access to

Since its almost 10 years after Scihub launched, is there a chrome extension or other wrapper for to make browsing easy on it, or some app that indexes newly released papers from a variety of journals and auto generates the scihub link equivalent?



I use Google scholar to find interesting papers and scihub to read them.


I had the same response when I first got started with it. Thing is, that's not what it was designed for. There's tons of other resources to use when actually researching; scihub just makes sure that what you find, you can access.


I’ve seen more contrived services that combine two or three things for more convenience

Would be surprising for someone not to do this with scihub yet


I think you can browse the papers via the libgen interface: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/


So even there I don’t know what I want to read or search

I just want to browse a catalogue

I would say “like Netflix” but even SSRN has this basic idea as a first class feature




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