The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

anc84 wrote: post #5

> the dark web, a part of the Internet often associated with drugs, weapons, and child porn. Indeed, due to journalists perpetuating that meme on and on again. Thanks for strengthening the bad image, Atlantic.

Well, "drugs, weapons, and child porn" are better clickbait than "resisting censorship and repression", no?

Re: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

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Post by MKolchin » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 11:36 AM UTC

I use it almost everyday, it's even more convenient to search an article in Google Scholar and then download a paper thorough Sci-Hub, than to use Scopus.com or Web of Knowledge's search engine.

Re: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

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Post by DyslexicAtheist » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 11:49 AM UTC

anc84 wrote: post #5

> the dark web, a part of the Internet often associated with drugs, weapons, and child porn. Indeed, due to journalists perpetuating that meme on and on again. Thanks for strengthening the bad image, Atlantic.

thanks, I was just about to quote the same paragraph. Totally ludicrous.

Every time a misguided journalist writes about the "underground drug-web", which is shaped like the underneath of an iceberg, and 1000x larger than the "real" Internet, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a tear. /s

Please make it stop.

Re: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

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Post by crazzzyraccoon » Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 12:19 PM UTC

Why are the academics forced to publish their papers through these paywalls? Hosting a PDF on the university website seems cheeper than going through these publishers.

Are these university imposed rules? Are they forced to go through these publishers if they want their paper peer reviewed and published in journals?