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Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, [ 4 ] by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways. [ 2 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] Unlike Library Genesis, it does not provide access to books. Sci-Hub was founded in Kazakhstan by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls (see ...
History. ResearchGate was founded in 2008 [ 11 ] by virologist Ijad Madisch, who remains the company's CEO, [ 4 ][ 3 ] with physician Sören Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher. [ 13 ] It started in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Berlin, Germany, shortly afterwards.
List of academic databases and search engines. This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ ...
Academia, Inc. Academia.edu is a commercial platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world. All academic articles are free to read by visitors, however uploading and downloading articles is restricted to registered users, with additional features accessible only as a paid ...
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [1] LibGen describes itself as a "links aggregator", providing a searchable database of items "collected from ...
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...
ResearchGate changed their procedures to calculate the RG score, but as of September 1, 2021, Joseph Stiglitz is still listed on ResearchGate with a score of only 8.56 [2], and ResearchGate remarks as well that. “Joseph Stiglitz's score is higher than 42.5% of all ResearchGate members’ scores” [3]
ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters Corporation. This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification and correct attribution of works. In scientific and academic literature, it is common to cite the name, surname, and initials of the ...