The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)

Post by unlinked_dll » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

devurand wrote: post #152

rlayton2 wrote: post #40

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Academics write the paper for free, academics review the paper for free. I've published quite a bit and never had worthwhile input from a non-academic editor. A journal's only real cost would be in hosting costs, which I'm sure would be minimal for static content. While the big-ticket journals have a value from being so picky, often this is at the expense of some things. For instance, it is hard to get replication st…

> I'd like to see some weighted reputation system used instead, where academics can give their "vote" to papers they like, giving it a total weight, however such systems have been proposed in the past and haven't got much traction. A reddit-clone with strong verification/validation of user accounts seems like it would fit the bill. I can imagine a system with a small monthly fee to participate, subreddits with paid m…

Post by frenchyatwork » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

improbable22 wrote: post #58

martin_vejmelka wrote: post #53

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> why don't you just host your papers on your website then - or, if you do, why don't you think it's enough? Most publishers prevented you from doing this as of a few years ago (I left academic research around that time). You were not allowed to post any content that contains any work by the publisher (even formatting/editing changes after first round of reviews). Thus you could only publish a "preprint" which no-one…

The norm at least in parts of physics is to update the arxiv version once the paper is accepted, with a note saying "v3: matches version to appear in XXX", with a DOI link. Where "matches" means the content, but not the journal's formatting, spelling & comma preferences, etc. (And ideally this note would also mention any substantial changes, like "new section 4 explaining..." or "derivation in 3.2 re-written, but no…

Post by anticensor » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC

xamuel wrote: post #162

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #99

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Because it is required for promotion, tenure, grant requests, etc. For example, why can't I (tenured professor) stop submitting journal papers? In Spain we have a research assessment every six years where basically only indexed journal papers count (even in CS where actually journals are quite irrelevant compared to conferences, but that's a different war of mine...). If you have enough indexed journal papers, you ge…

Out of curiosity, how does that research assessment treat papers with multiple authors? Does it only give credit to the first author, or does it divide credit by the number of authors?

Post by thfuran » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #138

qwerty456127 wrote: post #84

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That's a well-known issue: legal channels usually are ess convenient to use. That's why it often makes sense to download and use a pirated copy of a game/movie/ebook/whatever after you buy it: you both fulfill your duty and enjoy nice UX then. In case of movies, games and software sticking with a legal channel often also means you can't get it in a language you want because a particular company has an exclusive licen…

> even Netflix would only give you a choice of a small number of languages relevant to your country This baffles me, especially for Netflix original content. Is it because they think the UI would get cluttered?

Post by neekburm » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

this_was_posted wrote: post #135

Topolomancer wrote: post #5

I am part of a well-funded university, so I have access to all the papers without using Sci-Hub. Nevertheless, I prefer this platform because I disagree with the publishing model of most publishers. Let's not get into the details here, but there is all kinds of shoddy editorship happening all over the place---I have seen at least one blatant case of plagiarism in an Elsevier journal: no one cares. I have experienced…

even better, add this as a bookmark and you're only one click away from a PDF: javascript:window.location=' https://sci-hub.tw/'+window.location