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Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd probably use Scihub for a quick download for a paper I'm interested in reading. And then if I wanted to share it publicly or with coworkers I might use Unpaywall.
Just yesterday Unpaywall found a publicly available copy of a 1980s article I was looking for and which Sci-hub didn't have.
I don’t know why it should be a question of which one to use. Use both because both do different things.
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#33https://oa.mg/ is another initiative that indexes over 200 million papers and lets you know if a paper is open or not. They tend to have download links to a rather large amount of papers.
It would be great to see Zotero integrate these databases into a PDF search feature, or a plug-in
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#34- "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...
Unpaywall is different to crossref. The size will be similar as a lot of scientific DOIs are from crossref, and they're a common dataset to base initial data on.
https://unpaywall.org/data-format is the format for unpaywall
https://api.crossref.org/swagger-ui/index.html for crossref info
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#35If a university pay walls a single paper or article they produce from the public they should immediately be stripped of all of their public funding. I can't think of a single reason why the public is forced to pay taxes to them if the only way they are able to see a benefit from it is by proxy of someone who is paying money to attend or someone spending their private money to access the information.
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#37I'm gonna stick with scihub to be honest
Scihub solves an entirely different problem.
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#38btw if there is a paper you want to read behind a paywall and it's not available elsewhere, many times if you email the author(s) they will send it to you
It's not instant gratification and you lose some anonymity but if you really want to read it, good to know that option.
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#39If a university pay walls a single paper or article they produce from the public they should immediately be stripped of all of their public funding. I can't think of a single reason why the public is forced to pay taxes to them if the only way they are able to see a benefit from it is by proxy of someone who is paying money to attend or someone spending their private money to access the information.
I'm a proponent of affordable open access. I think that work produced using even a penny of federal grant money should only be published in open access venues where publication fees (including eg mandatory conference attendance) are capped at $500. (In particular, these means a permanent remote attendance option at all CS conference... no more "good work doesn't get published because the author is at a community college and can't afford a one week European beach resort vacation".)
The opinion expressed in the parent comment is (perhaps unwittingly) extreme and doesn't even solve the problem.
First, the "no paywalls" solution does not even solve the problem! What happens in practice is that publishers shift the cost from the reader to the author by charging MASSIVE open access fees to publish. The taxpayer gets screwed by the publisher on the front-end instead of the back-end. Any solution needs hard upper limits on the cost of publishing.
Second, open access requirements should be scoped to work paid for with public funds. Professors should be allowed to write books and publish them through the university press as long as they do the work on their own time (or the university's time). Graduate students should be allowed to do off-hours consulting work to make ends meet during their PhD studies.
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#40If a university pay walls a single paper or article they produce from the public they should immediately be stripped of all of their public funding. I can't think of a single reason why the public is forced to pay taxes to them if the only way they are able to see a benefit from it is by proxy of someone who is paying money to attend or someone spending their private money to access the information.
In the US, federally funded research is already required to made available without paywalls within 1 year of publication. Open-access advocates online generally seem to be unaware of this, and that current goalposts are therefore (a) immediate open access, and (b) open-access publication of all scientific research regardless of funding source.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expandi...
https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research...