Beyond close vs. distant ties: Understanding post-service sharing of information with close, exchange, and hybrid ties
Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe people in academia are paid to write these books anyways While that does occasionally happen, it's definitely not true in general. The people I know who wrote academic books did so by taking a sabbatical from their university job and/or working evenings and weekends for the actual writing. Occasionally they can apply for a separate writing grant to cover their lost salary, but that's completely separate fro…
What I meant was their job is to author such books. Not that they should be paid separately for them. Depending on the country academicians might be underpaid, but that's an issue on its own.
What I meant was their job is to author such books
Except in many cases it isn't. Most of the people I know who have written academic books did so off the clock and on their own time. Sure the university let them use their university office and resources, and obviously much of the research the book is based on is research they'd already done as part of their job, but the actual writing time and any additional research they had to finance from sources unrelated to their university job.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for sharing; note that I've moved that to a somewhat simpler URL: https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ I should also add that I am also working on a project to incentivising authors to make their work freely available: https://flockademic.com/ (More info here: https://medium.com/p/the-holy-grail-in-open-access-sharing-t... )
Sci hub seems like the perfect candidate for ipfs, I'm astounded the mirrors haven't implementated that yet.
A dataset at the scale of Scihub would have to pay someone to keep all the various PDFs online (which IIRC is around 70TB by now), which would mean a DMCA or N&T or similar would take down paid IPFS hosters.
I'm not sure how many people would willingly play IPFS hoster for 70TB datasets for free and while not giving a shit about authorities knocking on the door.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elsevier are disliked for litigation against scihub+libgen, IIRC? Also might be noteworthy that they have a long controversies section on their wikipedia page (including lots of things I'd never read about until now) while Springer and IEEE have none listed. I couldn't find ACM, what does it stand for?
Association for Computing Machinery. Theoretically everyone in the computer science field is not just aware of them but is a member :)
Yes. I work in CS in the field of Computer Graphics and (by association) Computer Vision and Robotics. Our top conferences and journals are by ACM. However there are a few journals by Elsevier and IEEE which are relevant. I do not have (legal) access to any of those three. However there are publishers who allow authors private/institutional hosting of their papers without paying additional open access fees. I would still doubt their legitimacy in tax funded research results...
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#105jaeyoung cho
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#106Aaaaand it's down.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the Scientific Publication Mafia is your definition of the "West", then, yes, let's stick it to the "West". Anyway, is there any proof that Sci-Hub is part of the Kremlbots, besides Alexandra Elbakyan being from Kazakhstan?
She have strong pro-Putin view and tend to ban anyone who dont agree with her, even banned all Russian IPs from Sci-Hub last year because of some political discussions on social networks. Though this doesn't change the fact project itself is very useful and obviously it's her own personality problems rather than some conspiracy.
Lmao, she is a communist, how is she pro-Putin ?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
She have strong pro-Putin view and tend to ban anyone who dont agree with her, even banned all Russian IPs from Sci-Hub last year because of some political discussions on social networks. Though this doesn't change the fact project itself is very useful and obviously it's her own personality problems rather than some conspiracy.
Lmao, she is a communist, how is she pro-Putin ?
You'd have to ask her how she reconciles being a non-marxist communist, transhumanist, and Putin's stooge, but she manages somehow. There were examples posted here of her punishing scientists for speaking up in support of someone Putin had targeted.
As to why... I would hazard a guess that it's because she's neither a good person (far from it, by all indications) nor, really, a particularly bright one.
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#110And it's down.
"See you later Too much attention is a bad thing, Sci-Bay decides to stop service for a while. Sorry. Anyone who knows how Sci-Bay works and wishes this tool benefits more academics, please contact: info@sci-bay.org"