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RIP Aaron: world's largest sci articles store. 20,000,000+ articles for free.

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Re: RIP Aaron: world's largest sci articles store. 20,000,000+ articles for free.

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Post by dutchbrit »

I can't seem to download any pdf's, they stop at a few kb's. I'd love to offer a mirror however! Are all these articles public domain? Where were they obtained from? I see that (the majority?) are directly linked to http://libgen.org/?

Re: RIP Aaron: world's largest sci articles store. 20,000,000+ articles for free.

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Post by aw3c2 »

Illegitimate copying in perfect disguise. Don't fall for the trap of thinking this is legit. Seems like a Library Genesis mirror.

edit: Bah, it is an insult to leech off Aaron Swartz's open access ideal. There are no _direct_ links, they seem to require Javascript, Cookies or something else I have not tried enabling yet. The site also does not offer an easy way to mirror, in fact it limits the results shown for a search.

Re: RIP Aaron: world's largest sci articles store. 20,000,000+ articles for free.

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Post by shocks »

dutchbrit wrote: post #2

I can't seem to download any pdf's, they stop at a few kb's. I'd love to offer a mirror however! Are all these articles public domain? Where were they obtained from? I see that (the majority?) are directly linked to http://libgen.org/ ?

Working fine for me, I was able to download a couple without any issues.

Re: RIP Aaron: world's largest sci articles store. 20,000,000+ articles for free.

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Post by dombili »

dutchbrit wrote: post #2

I can't seem to download any pdf's, they stop at a few kb's. I'd love to offer a mirror however! Are all these articles public domain? Where were they obtained from? I see that (the majority?) are directly linked to http://libgen.org/ ?

I'm downloading one now, but it's EXTREMELY slow.
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