A plan to mine the world’s research papers

Post by nafizh » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 3:36 AM UTC

Post by killjoywashere » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 5:32 AM UTC

nafizh wrote: post #2

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.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 6:12 AM UTC

Post by hyperbovine » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 8:26 AM UTC

modeless wrote: post #3

So, sci-hub, but less accessible?

Post by IronBacon » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #9

hyperbovine wrote: post #8

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.