Is there any way to download a specific journal?
Yes, sci-hub itself.
I believe they meant all articles of a given journal, rather than a specific article.
Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
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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.
Yeah if you go to a less than stellar university your data sources and paper sources are not that great. I went to a poorly ranked undergrad and had most of the standard stuff. I went to a top 10 for my post grad and we had so much stuff, market research reports that normally only consulting companies can afford, top data sources, virtually every journal subscription imaginable, top level subscriptions to online text…
I'm a PhD student and my university has a pretty decent subscription. But while downloading a paper from a uni IP is very straightforward, from outside campus one has to jump through so many hoops that sci hub is the most comfortable option.
Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#133This is awesome. If only we could share this huge dump of PDF files as a more structured format, perhaps using SQLite [1, 2], we could search through the torrents without having to wait for all of them to download beforehand. Although I guess the fact of having to "download them all beforehand" forces the data to be spread across various computers, hence increases availability of the data. One idea I had regarding th…
Maybe someone could compute and host an index of this stuff?
Yes and those are effectively "torrent sites" which carry with them all the baggage of ads and being easily shuttable.
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The _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?
I think tape would probably be the best choice --- a single LTO-7 tape cartridge holds 6TB and costs <$100USD. Of course the drive is quite expensive, but HDDs are less reliable and more expensive per GB.
The scale usually tips towards LTO at around ~100TB or so (give or take 20TB depending on where you are located and how good your negotiation skills are), and that's only if you can afford a tape downtime until you get a new one (in case it breaks), and to refresh the whole library come LTO-10 (because it won't even be able to read your LTO-7 tapes).
It almost always makes better sense to back up to hard drives that carry their own connectors and "tape" with them -- I've recently found two disks from 2001 in storage. I needed a $15 IDE-to-USB connector because I don't have IDE connectors anymore. And there were 16 bad 512-byte sectors over one 20GB disk, and no bad sectors over one 15GB disk. Easily readable.
I also had a couple of backup tapes from the same era inside the same box I found. The required drive brand is not even listed (it's not LTO), and I'd be surprised if (a) I can find a tape that can read them, and (b) if they still work properly.
But I don't need them, because the drives they backed up are still readable .....
Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#135The total collection is 54.54 TiB, with 690 torrents as of writing. For preservation purposes, I put magnet links to all the torrents here: https://pastebin.com/zTAqS7wz So, even if the torrents go away, the magnet links should still be usable. (Edited: fixed link)
Is there a way to see which are in the direst need of seeders? I am currently participating in some of them at random, as I have nowhere near 50 TiB of free space but who love to do it more efficiently.
Possible in theory, just ping the trackers with each of the torrents and see which ones have the fewest peers.
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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.
The payment is in cv credentials. It is a great payment, by thr way.
Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, sci-hub itself.
I believe they meant all articles of a given journal, rather than a specific article.
Ah I see, no that isn't possible right now as far as I can see, it would require some meta data. Also, for some unspecified reason I have no problem with downloading a paper but I do have a problem with downloading a journal. If I try to pin it down it is related to the act of curation, the articles themselves imo should not be copyrighted but the curation is original work so the list of articles in a given journal should have some protection.
This might even point to a possible resolution of this whole conflict: journals get paid by submitters to have their article listed in the journal's index (which takes care of the pedigree part), the public has free access to the articles themselves.
Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
The _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?
I think tape would probably be the best choice --- a single LTO-7 tape cartridge holds 6TB and costs <$100USD. Of course the drive is quite expensive, but HDDs are less reliable and more expensive per GB.
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Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
#139Earlier 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.
That's very true. The costs are enormous, and also keeps the research closed off to many non-Western universities. Based on rankings such as [1], the research performance is heavily skewed to the US and UK. To gain a greater global perspective, research needs to push outside of these bounds. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Ranking_of_Scienti...
Be aware that those rankings are heavily biased.
e.g. they don't count 95% of German research at all.
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This can't be said too much! Torrenting anything potentially problematic without using a reputable VPN service is foolish . And make sure that the machine is firewalled, to block all traffic (including DNS requests) not using the VPN. Only the VPN client should have direct Internet connectivity. For extremely sensitive material, it's prudent to use nested VPN chains. So no one provider knows both who/where you are, a…
Do you have recommendations for actually anonymous leaseable VPS/Seedboxes? Just buying some bitcoin on Coinbase defeats the purpose. Can I mail cash somewhere?
Find a local bitcoin exchange. Meet in person to exchange