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[–]deerpig 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you make duck duck go your default search engine you can use their !bang shortcuts for thousands of types of custom searches. See: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

For example:

  • !g search google
  • !gi google images
  • !gsc google scholar
  • !gt google translate
  • !imdb search Internet Movie Database
  • !ia search archive.org
  • !a search amazon
  • !w search wikipedia
  • !sep /!plato search stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

Up until a week ago there were bangs for libgen (!lg) and sci-hub (!sh) and torrent sites, but no more because of liability concerns :(

[–]FixShitUp 2 points3 points  (3 children)

A concise email to the corresponding author can also work nicely.

[–]gwern[S] 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I dislike that because aside from being useless in most of the cases I would need it (the author being dead or unreachable), I would feel honor-bound to not distribute the fulltext further, defeating much of the point.

[–]Deeppopu/Deeppop 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How do you reconcile the fact that the consequences of distributing further are exactly the same regardless where you got the book from ?

Suggested answer: by not strictly sticking to Singerian consequentialist ethics, I guess.

[–]gwern[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second-order effects. You should stick to deals you make with individuals, with implicit conditions such as not redistributing privately-sent documents, even if the first-order effects would be good. Similarly, I keep secrets and confidences, even if revealing them publicly would do a lot of good; for example, the identity of Sheep Market's owner before he exit-scammed people for millions of dollars. (The 'deals' made with publishers etc are, however, illegitimate and deeply harmful, and should be defected against as civil disobedience.)

[–]wallrr 2 points3 points  (3 children)

How would I show others a WSJ article if it's behind a paywall? (Short of copy/pasting it)

[–]a_random_user27 8 points9 points  (0 children)

outline.com/"article url"

[–]gwern[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have no idea, aside from copy-paste. Right now, I have no easy way of getting WSJ articles in the first place - it used to be that going to it with a Google News referrer would work, then they disabled that; they left a Facebook referrer which you could use by prepending facebook.com/l.php?u=, but that was disabled a month ago or so; so now I'm not sure, and haven't looked up what the new paywall-bypass methods are for WSJ.

[–]Rholles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can then add metadata to the PDF & upload it to LG

bless you, gwern

[–]p3ondž 1 point2 points  (0 children)

here's a handy userscript that detects DOIs on webpages and links them on scihub:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/36188-sci-hub-automatic-link/code