I think in software you don't appreciate how important papers are compared to other subjects like chemistry.
I wonder if they had hobbyists in mind when they built that site.
Where Sci-Hub Is
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#12The sooner academic publishers die the better—not a very original thought, I'm aware. There's still very much a distinction between (self-)publishing on the arXiv and publishing in a 'real' journal/conference within the academic community, and I think it comes down to two factors: 1. The arXiv moderation process has a much lower bar; you see some pretty rubbish papers (often from large tech companies) make their way…
Just an arXiv with peer-review is not enough. There is a lot of room for innovation and improvement. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. Check out the last[4] article in that series. There are a few implementations, albeit not covering all features, like Authorea[5] and MIT's PubPub[6] (it is the open source[7]). See also GitXiv[8]. See also the Publishing Reform[9] project. Moreover, there is quite an interesting initiative from DARPA, to create the scientific social network of a kind - Polyplexus[10].
[1] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi...
[4] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-...
[8] https://medium.com/@samim/gitxiv-collaborative-open-computer...
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#13Did a mod edit the title? If so, this has to be the most useless edit -- it completely eliminates the whole point of the domain name.
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#14Too bad it's blocked by our telecom :( > Dear customer, Due to a warning in accordance with Section 81 (1a) UrhG / preliminary injunction / court decision, access to this website had to be blocked.
It has never been easier to run a wireguard client-server :)
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#15Too bad it's blocked by our telecom :( > Dear customer, Due to a warning in accordance with Section 81 (1a) UrhG / preliminary injunction / court decision, access to this website had to be blocked.
I'm surprised you put up with that kind of censorship. I'd get a VPN if I were you.
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#16Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it.
However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to give back to the people whose work I'm reading or at least some kind of science-related general fund or charity that I could contribute to?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really acting as a search engine, no. You can use Scholar for that, find the DOI, and paste it into sci-hub. Speaking of which, Scholar should really be showing DOIs on their search results. That is, the DOI should appear as a top-level clickable link from every result entry. I've tried to suggest many things like this to Scholar over the years, but to no avail... Like Google in general. Just a feature reque…
They would never display it. It's basically the same reason why they won't show a complete url anymore, the more time you spend on Google the more money they get.
Google does not run ads on scholar.
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#18I am of the opinion knowledge should be free and easily accessible. Research papers through sci-hub only helps to make knowledge easily accessible. Humanity's progress depends on people who shared their knowledge, not by people who use it as a tool to rule and hold on to power.
It will be nicer if whole sci-hub is able to move to IPFS network and accessible through a domain. The problem is IPFS do not offer anonymity of the nodes hosting the content. So publisher can sue any of the nodes being part of the network providing a chunk of data. Even though they are not liable as intermediary, but now a days it's pretty hard to defend in court and like the default judgement in case of sci-hub will happen with the node owners.
Hopefully libp2p and IPFS, IPNS can provide some way to be performant and anonymous.
Indeed some countries like India, China, Russia will even punish intermediary for hosting such content (there is no Safe Harbor laws in these countries). In USA and other economies hiring a lawyer and getting access to legal remedy is so expensive that even with Safe harbor law, one cannot defend unless have deep pockets like google, facebook, microsoft etc.
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#19Oh no! I'm seeing it down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/whereisscihub.now.sh Sending HugOps to everyone at Zeit trying to keep 99.99% uptime for now.sh at a time like this
There are no issues with the platform (https://zeit-status.co/). The deploy has been blocked due to ToS violations.
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#20Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it. However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to giv…
It’s not an answer to your question, but when you pay JSTOR or whomever, none of that goes back to the scientists. It’s not like royalties for an author.
I don’t know if that makes you feel any better?