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- Legality of downloading books from websites such as Library Genesis
In my home country, I have used such websites as Library Genesis and BookFi to download textbooks, from such publishers as Springer etc , which are otherwise either not available or available at exorbitantly high prices in my home country Is it legal or illegal for graduate students to download books from such websites?
- publications - I downoaded articles from libgen (didnt know was . . .
I did download some articles from libgen and by then I didn't know it wasn't right to do so, well some people say that there's no problem but honestly I think it is and I'm scared for what this art
- Slept through final, professor is giving me a zero and failing me – is . . .
It feels like one of the deadly sins but it's actually a physiological need If it's a physiological need because you were sick at the time of the exam, then your school should have a policy about how such situations are to be handled While I sympathize with your plight, it sounds like the problem was that you were too tired and just slept through the exam If that is the case, then I'm
- Ways to get free and legal access to research papers as a researcher
The other thing you can do is go through a university library -- try to get yourself some sort of position or student status (could be as an unmatriculated student, could be an online course)
- Is it legal to download textbooks from academia. edu?
– Nobody Mar 10, 2020 at 5:37 @RichardErickson: That's a different case academia edu is not sci-hub or library genesis, it's more "respectable" and public – einpoklum Mar 10, 2020 at 14:58 Show 2 more comments
- citations - Is there a simple way to bulk download a large number of . . .
5 I've got a library of 1200 references I'm using for a systematic review Now I need to download the PDFs of all these references, which will take days if I do it manually Is there a simple way to automatically download as many as possible from pubmed Google Scholar (maybe Scihub)? I have institutional access
- Will a journal reject a paper for citing an Encyclopedia?
No If other secondary sources like review articles are acceptable, then an encyclopedia is acceptable If the information is a well-documented, undisputed territorial boundary, then secondary sources should be adequate Personally, I have never heard of a paper being rejected for citing the wrong type of source in my field of research If the source is wrong or irrelevant, that could be a
- How long is reasonable to wait for reply from an editor?
Thank you everyone for your replies It is helpful to know how long the process can often take, and that the time involved in my case is not atypical I will hang tight for another month or so and ask for a status update again If the one editor does not respond, there is another executive whom I can contact for feedback I will take it on faith for a while longer that unless they specifically
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