Any sources to get scientific papers for my own interest? Doesn’t really matter if available as torrents or on the web to view. Thanks in advance!
Also see Nexus Search (@science_nexus_bot) on Telegram.
Anna’s Archive just added an academic papers feature called SciDB: https://annas-archive.org/
Not a piracy answer, but email the author(s). Most are excited that someone is taking interest in their work and will gladly send you the paper.
sci-hub has already been mentioned, but I will say that though it is not piracy, depending on the field, you can find free version “pre-prints” of papers on arxiv.org and socarxiv.org
sci-hub.se will get you most of papers
libgen.rs will get you most of books
You could try Sci-Hub and LibGen. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can always email the authors or other scholars who may have access to the paper you’re interested in. A less alternative site would be arXiv, but it just has preprints.