Abandoned AmericaThe fun thing about doing historical research as an individual unconnected with academia is the absolute constellation of different, ridiculously expensive paywalls you run into trying to get any info whatsoever
Bill Hooker 😷@AbandonedAmerica Someone has pointed you to LibGen and Sci-Hub, right?
@sennoma nope. Tell me more!
@AbandonedAmerica Well, these are legal grey zones. The conservative approach (e.g. what most librarians or lawyers would tell you) is to treat them as illegal file sharing. Wikipedia is fairly even handed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
and provides links and "See Also" resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
and provides links and "See Also" resources.
Eva Chanda@sennoma @AbandonedAmerica
Sci-Hub is great for sciences. Another thing to check is the digital resources of public libraries. Mine has access to New York Times, National Geographic, Press Reader (access to a variety of international newspapers & magazines), Eureka periodical search, and JSTOR, which gives you legal downloads of humanities & social sciences literature. It also has a ton of digitized photos & other historical resources for my province (Quebec). Best of luck!
Sci-Hub is great for sciences. Another thing to check is the digital resources of public libraries. Mine has access to New York Times, National Geographic, Press Reader (access to a variety of international newspapers & magazines), Eureka periodical search, and JSTOR, which gives you legal downloads of humanities & social sciences literature. It also has a ton of digitized photos & other historical resources for my province (Quebec). Best of luck!
Fade@AbandonedAmerica @echanda @sennoma I have definitely done the "Let me see if my university library will ILL that and then oops here's a PDF" thing for people before; but it's much easier for chapters than entire books, when it comes to old material not available in electronic form by default. Those they'll send me physically, but that's less useful for helping colleagues not in physical proximity.