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What about a Netflix but for science information . Pay $15 a month for access to a rolling catalogue of science info.
Then download everything possible with a small script and the FBI will hunt you down. For those who don’t know, I’m referring to Aaron Swarzt
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Why? The authors write the papers for free, the peer review is done by other scientists for free. Why should this "netflix for science" get to reap the profits by locking it behind a paywall? The reason why predatory publishers still exist is a coordination problem. The journals have prestige built up historically, and the scientists need to publish in prestigious journals for their career. It's a chicken and egg pro…
And the papers are often funded by public money.
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Probably; use a VPN. Yes they're copyrighted - albeit not by the authors who actually wrote them, but by the publishers who require copyright assignment for the privilege of having your work hosted on their website.
So when academics casually share papers with their collaborators, are they technically exposing themselves to lawsuits? Or is being part of a research organization/university with subscriptions to these services enough to mitigate that risk?
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She needs to step it up by killing thousands of innocent people from drone strikes to increase her chances.
Or start a war with her own citizens and use hunger as a weapon by destroying infrastructure, farming equipment and blocking foreign aid, creating a famine among millions.
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I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet. Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start. Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.
DOI URIs work great and sci-hub understands them. Figuring out the DOI from the citations section is a bit more annoying still. A meta glossary would be fantastic. 80% of learning a new field is figuring out the jargon.
True!
Torrent seeding effort: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... All papers on sci-hub are available as torrents from library genesis. The full collection contains 85 million articles (before this announcement), and is about 80TB. If anything ever happens to sci-hub or library genesis, there's enough people out there with backups that a replacement can be set up fairly quickly, albeit without t…
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I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet. Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start. Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.
One thing I've recently discovered is this website: connectedpapers.com/ It builds a graph of referenced papers and makes it easier to narrow down which one are important/foundational for further research I don't think a glossary would help. What you need to find is a "review paper". These act as a primer to the field for new researchers. They're usually well written, with less jargon and have tons of references for…
The references and citations are tagged and filterable, making it easy to see which are the most cited, or review papers, etc.
I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of material available. People always point to Wikipedia, but all of that is surface level. If you to build something, research something, or just really delve into it, there’s no substi…
What about a Netflix but for science information . Pay $15 a month for access to a rolling catalogue of science info.
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Why? The authors write the papers for free, the peer review is done by other scientists for free. Why should this "netflix for science" get to reap the profits by locking it behind a paywall? The reason why predatory publishers still exist is a coordination problem. The journals have prestige built up historically, and the scientists need to publish in prestigious journals for their career. It's a chicken and egg pro…
And the papers are often funded by public money.