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Finding articles on Sci-Hub
  I'm in the middle of writing a paper for school and as part of that I needed to view some articles.  My school gives me access to the EBSCO Research Databases, which is awesome, but there are a few articles in there that are only registered and not actually visible.  In my case, the article I wanted was The transistor and attitude to change, published in the American Journal of Physics in 1977 by Stuart Macdonald and Ernest Braun.

  Fortunately, not all hope is lost.  There's an awesome website called Sci-Hub that's basically a huge online repository of scientific information.  Like the stuff that's paywalled, except it doesn't have a paywall.

  You can find the DOI on Crossref using its metadata search.  Pasting the exact title of the article should have the one you want come up as one of the first few results.  Copy the DOI number (e.g. 10.1119/1.10971) from the link that gives you, and paste it into Sci-Hub's search box.  That gave me a PDF of the article I wanted basically instantly.