Why are people breaking copyright law, instead of questioning the researchers who voluntarily approach the journals? Why not ask the researchers if they'd consider sharing their work? Or convince them of an alternative means of publication. There is no one-handed clap.
Not everyone lives in a jurisdiction where copyright law exists. Among those who do, not everyone lives in a jurisdiction where this action is a violation of that law. Of those who do, not everyone recognizes copyright law as legitimate or binding on their conduct.
Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
What makes you think they plan to become an academic?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
There may be other answers to this problem. When someone posts a blog article, it usually gets submitted to an aggregator like HN and it then gets upvoted/downvoted/discussed, all for free. You might say that you need to be an expert in the field to review a paper and, perhaps that is true - or perhaps new publishing constraints will lead to a trend of more readable papers with more background and thorough explanation so as to be understandable to a wider audience. I for one am not afraid to see a little classic SV disruption hitting Academia.
Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
Peer review is unpaid, no matter if the journal has open access or not
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#75Not being in a scientific field, one of the previous times this came up I asked if any of the working scientists felt like SciHub had positively impacted their work: exposing them to more papers than they would have read, guiding them in different ways, etc. and the answer was a pretty overwhelming "ohmygodyes". From the outside, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a public good. It certainly seems like l…
It sounds like the "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries* is made real by less copyright, not more.
And yet, Congress is now trying to extend copyright to 144 years.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/us_congress_copyrig...
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#76Is there any way to download a specific journal?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
Paid journals had a point 20 years ago, but not anymore. Most studies are funded by the tax-payers or collaboration with the industries. The authors are not paid. The reviewers are not paid either. Finally the publisher comes along and claims royalty. It doesn't make sense.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Let me ask you a provocative question. When you build credibility in your field, will you be reviewing papers for free for open access journals?
They will be reviewing them for free or, at best, for peanuts.
(Usually, if peanuts are involved, they're literally peanuts)
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Until the cops kick your door in on copyright infringement charges to "make an example" of someone. Don't think it can't happen.
In over twenty years of piracy, I’ve never actually met someone online who got something more than a pissy email from an ISP. It’s possible to be made an example of, but if you’re not profiting from the piracy it’s vanishingly unlikely. The only people I know of who got more than a token fine were involved in some other criminal enterprise besides just downloading something.
I met Gary Fung (the founder of isoHunt) while waiting in line to buy my iPhone 4S in Richmond, Vancouver. Very friendly guy.
We had a nice chat on Facebook recently about copyright for song lyrics (I want to share a load of fan-made translations of Christian songs, but there's no CCLI in Taiwan so there's actually no legal way to proceed). Hearing about his experience amplified the chilling effect for me - if I had a limited-liability company, then there's more that I could do (e.g. VoiceTube), but as an individual it's not worth the risk.
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#80So now I'm curious-- What happens if you take the intersection of Wikipedia references with Sci-Hub content? Is it substantially less than the total 54Tb content on Sci-Hub? Also, has anyone made a browser extension that hyperlinks Wikipedia references with articles available over Sci-Hub?
>browser extension that hyperlinks Wikipedia references with articles available over Sci-Hub?
this works: