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Copyright holders taking down these libraries should be considered a crime against humanity.
Sciencide or knowledgecide. Let's hope our descendants condemn companies and personalities behind these attacks like we condemn criminals of the past.
True question: is there a value that elsevier&co are providing? Proofreading or Selecting the articles, by example? If so, even if their price reflect more their de facto monopoly than this value, if we want to replace them we need to also find a way to replace it. Could we outcompete them?
Nominally, publishers proof read, copyedit, format and publicise my articles after they've been through peer review. Occasionally the editors -- inevitably based in Chennai -- spot a typo that the reviewers missed. Sometimes they cock things up massively, especially equations -- I had a big argument about a tickz-based scheme once. The formatting is done automatically and for me as a latex author I really think we co…
What if we could look at authors, peer reviewers and papers as a graph of weighted edges to come up with a score that was independent on journals as a concept? And where there is an ontology for the semantics of edges (not only number of citations)?
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Copyright holders taking down these libraries should be considered a crime against humanity.
Sciencide or knowledgecide. Let's hope our descendants condemn companies and personalities behind these attacks like we condemn criminals of the past.
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…
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.
Edit for direct link to Octopus: https://science-octopus.org
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Copyright holders taking down these libraries should be considered a crime against humanity.
Sciencide or knowledgecide. Let's hope our descendants condemn companies and personalities behind these attacks like we condemn criminals of the past.
They'll still try to maintain control but it will no longer be a crime to resist. They will lose.
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…
Yes, it’s a new and better world. On the other side of the $275 per-paper Elsevier paywall, there are researchers who wish more people would read their papers. In my experience digging into robotics kinematics, authors are happy to answer questions and can point me to the right person when I want to send a check to support investigating specific research questions. The paywall deceives; science is neither an institut…
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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It's all PDF files, which have their own compression, so it's unlikely there would be substantial gain from additional compression. Each torrent has 100 zip files, and each zip file has 1000 PDFs, but the files are stored uncompressed within the zips (i.e. using the STORE method).
But each PDF is compressed individually. The textual content of the papers must have a lot of redundancy between them, maybe there is some gain to get there?
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I'm glad initiatives like [Plan S]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S ) exist ^^
How much does it cost for an author to publish in a Nature or Science journal under Plan S?
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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?
For the final, not open access published papers they certainly do.