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Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by pen2l »

ddtaylor wrote: post #2

Wow! Any idea how much data is there all together? I'm on a work network right now and can't fiddle with it.

I too would love the answer to that question.

The JSTOR archive that Aaron Swartz wanted released was 35GB. I would imagine SciHub's archive is probably much bigger, maybe a TB+?

Also, I wonder if supplementary figures/videos/program code are included in these archives. Probably not, certainly we'd be looking at many TB if such was the case.

Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by jacquesm »

xamuel wrote: post #7

Anyone know why this is done as so many tiny torrents? Torrent users can already choose which files to download from a torrent, so why not do this as a smaller number of larger torrents?

They're not that tiny. That's many thousands of papers / torrent, the file names are the paper id ranges in the system.

Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by jacquesm »

ddtaylor wrote: post #2

Wow! Any idea how much data is there all together? I'm on a work network right now and can't fiddle with it.

About 50T or so from my quick calculations, but:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/850s1e/cheapes...

Has it at almost 60 T and it increases all the time.

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