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Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by el_cujo »

bjonnh wrote: post #32

As academics, your institution is paying publishers to get access to journal (and you may loose access to electronic versions if the institution stops paying contrary to paper versions), you write papers for free, you review papers for free, you are part of the editorial board of the journal for free (or some crumbs for travelling to a conference), as an editor you spend most of your life managing people for a really…

>you write papers for free

Actually you often pay a couple thousand dollars as a publishing fee to get your paper in the journal after review. I'm sure it's not necessarily like that in every journal, but the bigger ones do it that way. So basically pay them to take your content, pay them to view their content, and do labor for them by reviewing papers for free.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by wiggler00m »

shuhari wrote: post #67
xvilka wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fe…

I will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas. Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'. http://asone.ai/

What is your business model?

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by shuhari »

wiggler00m wrote: post #72
shuhari wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas. Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'. http://asone.ai/

What is your business model?

We plan to take a cut of the crowdfunded transactions, like Patreon or Kickstarter does. We could also show academia-relevant ads on the sidebar. We will never paywall content on our platform.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by MacsHeadroom »

judge2020 wrote: post #33
bithavoc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What terms? Edit: I didn’t know Sci-Hub was illegal.

https://zeit.co/terms > You shall not... (b) use the Service in any unlawful manner (including without limitation in violation of any data, privacy or export control laws > This TOS shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to the principles of conflicts of law.

Pulling domain names from a Wikipedia article doesn't violate any laws. That's literally all the page did. It just checked the sci-hub Wikipedia article and reposted the latest domain listed. But it's their site/company, so whatever.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by iceIX »

xvilka wrote: post #12
p0llard wrote: post #7

The 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 fe…

This covers a lot of what we're building at OpenReview.net. Obviously we still long way to go, but we already have some of the major AI/ML conferences using our platform to accept submissions, perform paper matching, and host peer-review forums.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by MacsHeadroom »

processing wrote: post #22

HTTP 451

Which comes from the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, wherein society goes awry to the point of publicly funding the destruction of valuable information. It's also the temperature paper (books) burns at.

Nobody actually uses this status code, despite it being an official spec. I'd like to think the dev or dev ops person who configured this server used the status code as a minor protest. The spec authors would be proud.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by arlk »

palijer wrote: post #36

HTTP 451. I never thought I'd see one of those before. I live in Canada... Not some authoritarian dictatorship. Wonder who blocked it.

executing `curl -v https://whereisscihub.now.sh` shows an x-now-id header, which means that the request has reached Zeit Now servers and it's Zeit Inc who blocked it.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by boldlybold »

WilTimSon wrote: post #16

Sci-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…

If you enjoy a paper you read, email the first or corresponding author and say so! It would make my day if this happened to me, a PhD student.

Giving back doesn't have to be monetary. A note like that could give someone the encouragement they need to finish an experiment or a draft.

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