Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles

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Post by memorable » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:54 AM UTC

Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles
unpaywall.org

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Post by jleyank » Thu, May 05, 2022, 11:17 AM UTC

Isn’t this what google scholar was supposed to be about? Hope they figure out how to monetize this before the cash runs out because a properly curated, non fire hose kind of source would be great. Particularly if scientific publishing continues to shift to open source vs. Paywalled.

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Post by popcube » Fri, May 06, 2022, 3:58 AM UTC

jleyank wrote: post #2

Isn’t this what google scholar was supposed to be about? Hope they figure out how to monetize this before the cash runs out because a properly curated, non fire hose kind of source would be great. Particularly if scientific publishing continues to shift to open source vs. Paywalled.

Google scan books which borrow from library to enrich Google book, maybe they will do this again

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Post by teruakohatu » Fri, May 06, 2022, 4:15 AM UTC

jleyank wrote: post #2

Isn’t this what google scholar was supposed to be about? Hope they figure out how to monetize this before the cash runs out because a properly curated, non fire hose kind of source would be great. Particularly if scientific publishing continues to shift to open source vs. Paywalled.

I use Google Scholar frequently because it is far better and easier to login to than propriety databases like Scopus. I think it is miles ahead.

I really do fear it is next on Google discontinue list. They cannot be making any money from it.

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Post by lovelearning » Fri, May 06, 2022, 4:45 AM UTC

For some reason, I expected a big search box for articles on the front page. It exists at http://unpaywall.org/articles but the link's hidden away at the very bottom of the page.

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Post by gigatexal » Fri, May 06, 2022, 4:45 AM UTC

All scholarly papers funded by public money should be made freely available. All of these paid for publications need to stop being the Intuit of their fields and stop making people pay for something tax payers already paid for.

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Post by 0x20cowboy » Fri, May 06, 2022, 4:53 AM UTC

This is wonderful. Thank you.

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Post by jdkee » Fri, May 06, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

RIP Aaron Swartz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

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Post by perihelions » Fri, May 06, 2022, 5:51 AM UTC

- "To complete the download of the full dataset, please fill out this form, which helps us report usage back to our funders, and we'll immediately provide you with a download link."

https://unpaywall.org/products/snapshot

Is that dataset different from this un-gated one? They're both indexes of Crossref DOI's, and they're both 120 million records long.

https://www.crossref.org/blog/new-public-data-file-120-milli...

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Post by balaji1 » Fri, May 06, 2022, 5:55 AM UTC

I remember reading that reproducibility is hard in these scholarly articles... When will an AI attempt to reproduce the results from all CS and math articles.