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Re: Inside ArXiv

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Post by nickpsecurity » Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 7:54 PM UTC

Re article

"In 2021, the journal Nature declared arXiv one of the “10 computer codes that transformed science,” praising its role in fostering scientific collaboration. (The article is behind a paywall—unlock it for $199 a year.)"

Burned!

Re ArXiv

I read in their licensing that some papers are licensed for non-commercial use. Does anyone know an easy way to tell which are licensed that way?

I normally see the main, ArXiv page for a specific paper. Is there something on the page for licensing that I overlooked?

Re: Inside ArXiv

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Post by randomNumber7 » Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 9:00 PM UTC

segmondy wrote: post #28

randomNumber7 wrote: post #24

> For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries Are there scientists that don't know libgen or scihub?

libgen has been getting taken down especially after it came out that "AI companies" downloaded the entire archive for their training. Is it even still up? Furthermore, you can go go arXiv and see papers that got released yesterday or today. You can't find those on libgen or scihub.

It is still up, but DNS blocked in some countries. arXiv papers are not published in journals yet. Annas archive has also newer papers than scihub.

Re: Inside ArXiv

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Post by mobeets » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 7:35 PM UTC

boramalper wrote: post #29

mobeets wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scihub hasn’t been updated since 2020! But anyway arxiv has a lot of important features specifically for academic papers (eg quality control, categories, browsing, issuing dois, etc)

Do you know the latest on that? Are they still holding their breaths over that court case in India?

I have no idea (but wish I knew). I’m embarrassed to admit it took me years to even notice that it wasn’t being updated anymore

Re: Inside ArXiv

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Post by boramalper » Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC

mobeets wrote: post #33

boramalper wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know the latest on that? Are they still holding their breaths over that court case in India?

I have no idea (but wish I knew). I’m embarrassed to admit it took me years to even notice that it wasn’t being updated anymore

Okay, I found out that on Reddit [0] that you can follow for updates on the website of High Court of Delhi [1] (though you may need a VPN as it seems to be geo-blocked).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/1j5rmus/2192025_hig...

[1] https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/court/dhc_case_status_list_new...