I’m always eager to find new amazing sites i’ve never heard of, which ones would you recommend?

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      What’s the difference between scihub and arvix? I have heavily used arvix for my thesis and this is the first time I hear about scihub.
      LE: apparently I cannot spell arxiv right

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        ArXiv is for pre-prints. These are papers that have not yet undergone peer review. There is also bioRxiv, medRxiv, and others that are for specific field. SciHub is a piracy site for downloading papers. It is very useful, even when you have “legal” access to papers, because you can quickly load a paper using its DOI.

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        *arxiv

        arxiv.org allows anyone to submit scientific papers they’ve written. As such, the quality is mixed.

        I haven’t used SciHub, but as I understand it, SciHub focusses on making existing papers which were submitted elsewhere available for free.