Basically, if you search for something and they don’t have it, there’s a huge network of scientists with access to pay-walled journals, and one of them will add a PDF. They’ve grown larger than any of the journal subscription companies, and have the world’s largest collection of scientific papers.
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Basically, if you search for something and they don’t have it, there’s a huge network of scientists with access to pay-walled journals, and one of them will add a PDF. They’ve grown larger than any of the journal subscription companies, and have the world’s largest collection of scientific papers.