Really surprised this article makes no mention of Aaron Swartz and his battle with JSTOR.
This is the logical continuation of Aaron Swartz work.
He should be mentioned.
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
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#12The Sci-Hub Tor URL is https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion (source: https://vk.com/sci_hub?w=wall-36928352_5896 ) Image: http://i.imgur.com/xZmDmPY.jpg
You pasted a HTTPS address, but the server doesn't answer to HTTPS (it is somewhat redundant when you use onion services anyway). The correct one is http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
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#13Why 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?
This was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are forced to "buy back the fruits of [their] labour at outrageous prices", why do academic institutions even bother paying money to these companies? If the refereeing is being done for free, naively it surprises me that universities haven't just set up an independent organisation to do peer reviewing.
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#14> 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.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Every time a journalist writes that it is "often associated with" it gradually becomes more associated with it.
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#15I 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.
Do you get good results? I just tried it out and it most of the articles didn't work. I'm hoping it's just because of a traffic spike.
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#16Why 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?
To put it short:
Academic "weight" works much like google - the more citations paper has, the higher it is ranked. Of course a citation from local university journal (probably every university has at least one) is worth much, much less than a citation from Nature. It is calculated from Impact Factor, that is in turn calculated from number of citations. Sort of a closed loop.
This would not be too much of a problem if not for funding. You see, funding, that is necessary for anything non-trivial, is usually awarded according to researcher's reputation - something again based on impact, citations, etc.
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#17Has anyone successfully found something useful which they couldn't find elsewhere using this tool? I tried it on a few things yesterday and was disappointed.
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#18Why 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?
This was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are forced to "buy back the fruits of [their] labour at outrageous prices", why do academic institutions even bother paying money to these companies? If the refereeing is being done for free, naively it surprises me that universities haven't just se…
A good analogy is a farmer shopping at a supermarket.
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#19Why 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?
This was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are forced to "buy back the fruits of [their] labour at outrageous prices", why do academic institutions even bother paying money to these companies? If the refereeing is being done for free, naively it surprises me that universities haven't just se…
Researchers don't pay for access to journals, universities do. There is a personal benefit for a researcher to publish on a prestigious but paywalled journal but no personal cost.
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#20> 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.
With the new X-Files season, I've had an excuse to watch some over the air TV for the first time in a while. Before and during the most recent episode there was a recurring teaser for the local evening news that went something like "the hidden Dark Nets that cyber criminals are using and why they're so difficult to shut down!"
The accompanying graphics were things like dark hooded figures in silhouette and images of credit cards being scanned on something resembling a flatbed scanner. The whole thing was a real reminded of why I never watch network news unless there's something very local and "breaking" that's going on in my city.