Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

Elsevier made more than 3.5 billion dollars in revenue last year. They are trying everything possible to destroy open research. They were behind three bills in the US congress to prevent universities from providing access to pre-publication research. This is research that's been paid for by taxpayer dollars.

Companies with attitudes like Elsevier need to be buried.

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by vortico » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 10:39 AM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #3

Wonder what the size of the data set is so far? Likely TB's?

The total size of the torrents are around 38-40 TB.

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by derpadelt » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

So ordinary people may finally read my papers with reasonable effort? Sounds like an improvement. I am not in the academic content distribution industry though.

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by justinclift » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 11:30 AM UTC

vortico wrote: post #5

justinclift wrote: post #3

Wonder what the size of the data set is so far? Likely TB's?

The total size of the torrents are around 38-40 TB.

Wow, that's larger than I was expecting.

Um, is there a source for that info? Didn't see it in the referenced article. :)

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by oxplot » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 11:41 AM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #7

vortico wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The total size of the torrents are around 38-40 TB.

Wow, that's larger than I was expecting. Um, is there a source for that info? Didn't see it in the referenced article. :)

I don't know where vortico's getting his/her stats, but you can calculate it yourself from the http://libgen.io/ , where sci-hub.io stores the newly accessed papers [1]. They have torrent archive of all the materials since 2011.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Website

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by collyw » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #2

May it continue. Perhaps science can go the way music has where in practice you can see most stuff for free.

At least some of the time that does happen (not nearly as much as it should IMHO). I moved from one scientific institute to another, and would often get requests from friends in the first place asking if I was able to download a paper for them.

Re: Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

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Post by spacefight » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 1:38 PM UTC

Looks like it is piping the queries over to scholar.google.com - getting only timeouts right now though.