Amazes me how unfriendly the UX of academic publishing is. I have to click log in with my institution, search the name of my institution, log in with university SSO, do 2-factor auth, wait for page to reload to see if that gives me access, click download PDF, often that takes me to a web viewer where I again have to click download PDF. Or see if VPN gives me access, which has its own convoluted login process.

Meanwhile Sci-hub is just: 1. input DOI 2. get PDF

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@dantheclamman it is amazing how much the function from DOI to PDF gets obfuscated by multiple layers of academic publishing.

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