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!
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.
sci-hub.se will get you most of papers
libgen.rs will get you most of books
Sci-hub almost has everything, but you can access the rest by using a University account that pays for access
Unfortunately I'm not in University. Just reading them for personal learning. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Depending on your country, a local public library may also have access to these databases
Yep, some pages even recognise you're connecting from the library's IP address (using your own device) and will immediately let you in
To add on to that, a librarian could possibly help get you an article if your library doesn’t have access to it through interlibrary loan
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
A lot of research can be downloaded if it's open access. If it is not, you can request papers to the authors, this is really easy in platforms like ResearchGate. Others have also mentioned SciHub if you are okay with the arrr option.
