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Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by sampo »

simsla wrote: post #20
ImaCake wrote: post #8

This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method than going through official channels. I think it would be marginally quicker for me to access a paper legally if I was on my uni's campus. But I am WFH from the other side of the country and would need to log into the VPN. Sci-hub with one of these solutions wo…

There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, sci…

> the authors rarely see anything of this money

The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by PeterisP »

simsla wrote: post #20
ImaCake wrote: post #8

This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method than going through official channels. I think it would be marginally quicker for me to access a paper legally if I was on my uni's campus. But I am WFH from the other side of the country and would need to log into the VPN. Sci-hub with one of these solutions wo…

There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, sci…

> the authors rarely see anything of this money

IMHO it's not rarely but never, I'm not aware of any plausible scenario where any author would ever get a single cent of that payment.

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by fnord77 »

rickdeveloper wrote: post #12

Author here. Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0]. I didn't know about the bookmarklet when I started this. Maybe I should have used that instead. Oh well. I'm currently waiting for Mozilla to accept this into the add on store. If that passes, I will submit it to Chrome as well. [0] http…

it is great this is so subtle. I like this better than having context menu or some other hidden access link

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by epgui »

Reventlov wrote: post #7

My main problem with sci-hub right now is that it's stopped adding new content to the website since like 1 or 2 years. Which means if you want to have an up-to-date state of the art, you can't use sci-hub. I personally use the bookmarklet, i'm way more inclined towards this than some random browser extension.

I feel this pain too, it is a tragedy. :(

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by nefitty »

nefitty wrote: post #30
hobofan wrote: post #11

Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.

My god, why did you mention wikidata? SPARQL is the most obscure fucking thing I've ever encountered. I've been sitting here for an hour trying to find how to get the data of a specific page! I guess the rest API will do, ugh. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749

Ok, I'm not just here to bitch. Here's the code for my implementation of Sci-Hub mirror checking: https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub

I made an iOS Shortcut based on the same code. To use it after installing, access it from the iOS Share screen when you're on a relevant site. It will look for preferred mirrors from Wikidata before running.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/080b9f68c96a4491898b804547e...

Always review a Shortcut's actions before running it.

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by throwanem »

hirenj wrote: post #15

One of the contributions being solicited on the page is to get DOIs for the given webpage. Right now, it has a few methods to grab DOIs for specific sites. I've had a lot of success running Zotero's translation server for my own bibliographic needs, but I would really love if I didn't have to host it on a server somewhere (and could actually do that part in a browser engine I depend on to download PDFs anyway). Has a…

Looks like the Zotero devs have already done that [1]. You can probably just vendor the repo in a browser extension, I'd think.

[1] https://github.com/zotero/translators

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by epgui »

sampo wrote: post #31
simsla wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, sci…

> the authors rarely see anything of this money The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.

Indeed, and even worse: authors pay scientific journals thousands of dollars in publishing fees per article.

You want your article to be open access? No problem, that'll be thousands more dollars.

Re: Sci Hub Injector

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Post by bmacho »

BTW did you know that Firefox supports keywords for bookmarks OOTB?

You can set up a keyword e.g. "shb" for (code from above)

    javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location
and you can run it writing "shb" in the address bar. No need for bookmarklets.

Or how do y'all use boorkmarklets? E.g. on chrome? Is your boorkmark bar always visible?

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