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A plan to mine the world’s research papers

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Re: A plan to mine the world’s research papers

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It would be interesting to see the server getting hacked with all the papers in the open, and then the researchers sending a sorry email to the publishers.

Sci-Hubs database weights 25kgs. This has long been solved

https://mobile.twitter.com/sci_hub/status/697787778881490944

Search is what needs doing now. The next step in furthering knowledge.

Re: A plan to mine the world’s research papers

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So, sci-hub, but less accessible?

Also, marginally less likely to suddenly vanish in a poof of lawsuit one day. See Napster.

But storage costs have dropped by orders of magnitude since then and 'personal copies' of SciHub are a definite possibility.

Re: A plan to mine the world’s research papers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, marginally less likely to suddenly vanish in a poof of lawsuit one day. See Napster.

But storage costs have dropped by orders of magnitude since then and 'personal copies' of SciHub are a definite possibility.

I've read somewhere a couple of years ago that SciHub was about 35TB of data, quite big but still manageable.
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