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Also, usual reminder that Sci-Hub exists and has all the research papers available for free from any journal.

Sci-Hub is great, but it absolutely does not have everything published. I try to keep up with the archaeology journals and maybe 1/3rd of papers I look for are available.

IIRC they download the paper as you enter the doi if it is not already in their catalogue; so does moscow library just not have subscriptions to the journals you're looking for or what?

Not all articles have dois.

Oh that's interesting. I search for stuff over a wide variety of fields, and find like 95%+ of what I search for. Some of it is so obscure I'm amazed they have it.

Try libgen scientific articles, e.g. http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php?s=archaeology .. ALso you can search by journal number (or click on journal name) and all issues are shown in a table.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832410/

If you can't find it on Sci-Hub, chances are that a top-tier R1 does not have it either.

Thanks, interesting paper. What's an R1?

Research focused universities are R1. Professors are required to spend more time on research and less on instruction.

Yep, Sci-Hub is sorely lacking when it comes to humanities. I've had several DOIs just come up empty after it tries all its proxies.

This is not an option for big universities (or big companies) unless they want to get sued.

I've never heard of sci-hub being blocked by any academic institution.

Sci-hub is not accessible from my institution.

US research university?

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