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Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
- lmgayosso 11y agoBrain Aggregates: An Effective In Vitro Cell Culture System Modeling Neurodegenerative Diseases.
- cyphar 11y agoI didn't know that you could raid ships using a website(!). In all seriousness, the act of "sharing the collective knowledge of mankind publicly" isn't morally equivalent to attacking ships and killing people. We should stop using terms that are clearly propaganda created by the film and music industry to try to muddy the waters.
- jMyles 11y agoSome people also make the case that the pirates, rather than the navy, were the 'good guys' of the maritime era.
- gardano 11y agoThe word "privateer" comes to mind.
- njharman 11y agoI agree completely. We should also start owning the term and framing the debate around it. Cast it in positive anti-establishment terms. Like pirate radio, Robin Hood, V4vendetta. Lone, beleaguered hero(s) fighting for the peoples against tyrannical and oppressive regimes.
- krapp 11y agoWhat might help is if someone started a file sharing site and named it after a place where pirates hung out and incorporated a pirate ship and the word "pirate" into their logo. Then maybe if it became popular these so-called "pirates" could cast off the shame of being tarnished by an image they clearly don't embrace at all.
- fela 11y agoThe word pirate has a new and different meaning in the 21st century, I think it's too late to try to fight that. And the title presumably helps with conveying what the website is about, compare it with my submission where I used the original title (and which got one upvote in total): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093454
- Houshalter 11y agoSome people have been using the word "freebooting" instead.
- cyphar 11y agoHello Internet is a very funny podcast. But "freebooting" isn't a positive thing. Sharing is a positive thing. The two terms do not equate morally.
- Houshalter 11y agoWell piracy shouldn't be a positive thing.
- cyphar 11y ago<insert funny joke about the Pirates of the Caribbean movies not being positive> "Piracy" is a negative term for "sharing of media". I don't see how sharing books between friends is a bad thing. Why is sharing music and movies suddenly "evil"?
- braythwayt 11y ago> We should stop using terms that are clearly propaganda > created by the film and music industry to try to muddy > the waters. This is an instance of reappropriation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation It is similar to the way groups have reappropriated slurs like “slut,” “nigger,” or “queer."
- maaku 11y agoPirate is a badge of honor in these days. Think: Pirate Party.
- tim333 11y agoMay it continue. Perhaps science can go the way music has where in practice you can see most stuff for free.
- collyw 11y agoAt least some of the time that does happen (not nearly as much as it should IMHO). I moved from one scientific institute to another, and would often get requests from friends in the first place asking if I was able to download a paper for them.
- justinclift 11y agoWonder what the size of the data set is so far? Likely TB's?
- vortico 11y agoThe total size of the torrents are around 38-40 TB.
- justinclift 11y agoWow, that's larger than I was expecting. Um, is there a source for that info? Didn't see it in the referenced article. :)
- oxplot 11y agoI don't know where vortico's getting his/her stats, but you can calculate it yourself from the http://libgen.io/ http://libgen.io/ , where sci-hub.io stores the newly accessed papers [1]. They have torrent archive of all the materials since 2011. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Website
- korginator 11y agoElsevier made more than 3.5 billion dollars in revenue last year. They are trying everything possible to destroy open research. They were behind three bills in the US congress to prevent universities from providing access to pre-publication research. This is research that's been paid for by taxpayer dollars. Companies with attitudes like Elsevier need to be buried.
- derpadelt 11y agoSo ordinary people may finally read my papers with reasonable effort? Sounds like an improvement. I am not in the academic content distribution industry though.
- spacefight 11y agoLooks like it is piping the queries over to scholar.google.com - getting only timeouts right now though.
- bnegreve 11y agoIt uses scholar as a search engine, but then it replaces the links in the results. e.g. http://link.springer.com/link-to-paper becomes: http://link.springer.com.sci-hub.io/link-to-paper As far as I can tell, it works for some articles.
- aldanor 11y agoJust use DOI of the article, then it's instant and bypasses Google search
- agumonkey 11y agoIt's off and on. Last night I could access it but it came back.
- Eudyptula_minor 11y agoUS is prob ddosing it...
- srean 11y agoHope widespread knowledge about its existence does not kill it.
- oxplot 11y agohttp://libgen.io/ http://libgen.io/ which archives the sci-hub's newly accessed papers distributes the copies through BitTorrent. Libgen itself is also mirrored in multiple locations. Even if Sci-hub is taken down, it shouldn't take long for another to pop up.
- petra 11y agoThey encrypt their torrents, so it's pretty useless.
- mynewtb 11y agoWhat makes you think that? If the filenames confused you, those are checksums. The metadata is available as database.
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- kanzure 11y agothey don't distribute scihub data in their torrents, it's a separate data set :(
- calibraxis 11y agoPartly depends on whether people organize to support it, I guess.
- germanier 11y agoIt's already at the receiving end of a lawsuit by Elsevier in New York. I doubt that more attention would change anything.
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- Jeaye 11y agoUmm, "pirate website" that uses a secure.sci-hub.io, but not actually a secure connection. Really, Let's Encrypt has made this a no-brainer. Anyone making a site should be expected to be using SSL. Especially those making anything related to anything "pirate" or "secure."
- StavrosK 11y agoBecause if there's one thing pirates are known for, it's their commitment to your security.
- zanny 11y agoI just checked, the two most popular public torrent sites have COMODO CA default-on https. These sites do want to maintain security, so their users can keep coming back rather than getting copyright strikes or worse fines and getting scared off. That doesn't stop them from putting viruses in the ad banners, but that is not getting their users arrested.
- chris_wot 11y agoExcept that torrent sites are not necessarily completely used for pirating.
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoTorrent sites, especially the popular ones mentioned above, are almost entirely used for pirating. Bittorrent, on the other hand, is not exclusively used for piracy.
- tombrossman 11y agoPirates that don't pay attention to security don't last very long, so I would tend to agree with that statement. Try a quick survey of the most popular pirate sites and see how many support HTTPS. You might be pleasantly surprised.
- bhouston 11y agoSo what is the strategy once Springer starts getting their domains taken down? With torrents this was never a big deal once there was the DHT - it didn't matter which search engines where taken down or which trackers, the torrents lived to see another day. This website at this stage seems particularly easy to take down as it is a centralized weak link. Centralized services work great when they are legitimate: Netflix, Spotify, but decentralized work best when they are not legal.
- ikeboy 11y agoBookmark scihub22266oqcxt.onion
- Blahah 11y agoSci-hub isn't going anywhere: 1. The data is stored via lib Gen as torrents (for the PDFs), and a metadata database that is mirrored by hundreds of people. 2. In case of a domain takedown the site can be resurrected at a new domain very quickly - as recently happened when the sci-hub.org domain was taken down after Elsevier sued the Sci-Hub founder. 3. There's an onion site, which can't be disrupted by a centralised domain service.
- vixen99 11y agohttp://www.freefullpdf.com/#gsc.tab=0 http://www.freefullpdf.com/#gsc.tab=0 is another useful site if you're a lone researcher who doesn't have taxpayers' money funding your literature search and can't afford (in some cases) $30-$40 to look at a published paper.
- aw3c2 11y agoSurely that's the same corpus?
- travjones 11y agoI've used sci-hub a few times. It's a little buggy and not every article can be accessed, but it works well enough to try when I'm not on campus. $30 to read a single article is ridiculous anyway and presents a barrier to scientists who don't have, can't afford, or don't want to pay for access. I hope sci-hub stays up and improves for some time.
- Cyph0n 11y agoIf you're a student, your university likely has a proxy service that allows you to access journals from anywhere using your credentials. My previous uni gives access to alumni for life, so I can access journals for free from wherever.
- r3bl 11y agoAnd what are people outside of the U.S. supposed to do?
- dfc 11y agoThe GP is a great person to ask that question to in light of the fact that he is a student in UAE. I am curious why you assumed that GP is from the US?
- niels_olson 11y agoLet me guess: Because the spoken language is English and the site has a clearly US-centric culture? Even more specifically, an SV culture. Have you ever seen a housing article about Fresno on the front page? New York? One could argue the bias lacked utility, but it's hardly incriminating.
- sidarape 11y agoI don't think it is unique to the US... I'm in Canada and also have that.
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- lambdaelite 11y agoSilicon Valley and YC don't exactly have a stellar reputation for ethical behavior. Having a "pirate website" at the top of the news page doesn't exactly change that perception. I totally get that journals are evil, and charging money for research generated with public funds is questionable. It's very frustrating as a small entity needing to view articles, and being asked to cough up $25-50. That said, there are legitimate alternatives (like emailing the corresponding author, or professional society memberships, or alumni library access, or DeepDyve). The linked website is flagrantly violating copyright and that should be cause for concern; not breaking the law is part of every engineering (and professional) ethical code.
- unixhero 11y agoBooo. edit: Those alternatives will not work 99% of the times. I love the fact that it says pirate site. Information wants to be free.
- smanzer 11y agoWell, I'm not from Silicon Valley or YC, and I avoid torrenting music etc because it takes more directly from content creators, but the publishers' business practices put this on a whole different level to me. Also, half the time for the old-school stuff that one has to cite in the introduction for a paper, the corresponding author is dead but the paper is still under copyright.
- zanny 11y agoDistinguish ethical from legal. Not all laws are ethical (depending on where you live, most laws could easily be unethical), and this website goes out of its way to say why the laws they violate are not.
- alanwatts 11y ago>One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with Saint Augustine that “An unjust law is no law at all.” Now what is the difference between the two? How does one determine when a law is just or unjust? -Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
- smanzer 11y agoGood for them. For the last article that I published, the publisher "value added" consisted of highlighting all the all-caps names in my document and asking me to define them as acronyms. Literally the only thing they did, and it wasn't even right.
- IshKebab 11y agoDidn't they also hassle people to review it (for free of course). That's the only thing that would be a bit hard to replace by a totally free service.
- smanzer 11y agoThey do. They route it to the editor (senior academic), who routes it to appropriate reviewers. I think that the editor does it for free too in many cases. I feel like running ads on the site would pay for the bandwidth, only thing a totally free service couldn't replace is the prestige :(
- cyphar 11y ago"Prestige" of a peer-reviewed article in a particular journal isn't the most important thing. What matters is how well-cited your work is. Peer-review is done by contributors to a journal, so you could get the same from a free service.
- smanzer 11y agoCitations help you out in the long-time limit for sure; "worlds 7th most cited chemist" is definitely an improvement on "another dude with a bunch of Nature papers." But I would imagine that when you are going toward important early-career milestones (postdoc/assistant prof/tenure), they are mostly looking at your recent work, which will not have had time to accrue too many citations unless it is the absolute hottest thing. In those cases, journal ranking may be a bigger differentiator. I don't know how one would fix this.
- slantaclaus 11y agoThis is what Aaron Swartz was trying to do, right?
- DennisP 11y agoAllegedly. All we actually know is that he downloaded a large number of articles.
- Fizzadar 11y agoGreat to see a massive middle finger to the journal system. It's a disgrace and has to stop. Unfortunately I fear sites like this might entice more stringent protections for future journal published articles. The war continues.
- Rainymood 11y ago(1) Isnt this illegal? (2) How do they get access to those papers?
- smanzer 11y ago(1) Yes. In USA anyway. Creator is not in USA, however. (2) Academics donate their institutional login credentials to the site.
- bhouston 11y agoSpringer doesn't watermark based on logins? They could easily and then she the academics.
- smanzer 11y agoUsually being on the general university network is sufficient to get journal access. Using the university network credentials for the academic, it probably goes SciHub -> School -> Journal. So the school would have to block SciHub/discipline the academic. Disciplining people with tenure is hard, although maybe it is just graduate students giving the credentials idk.
- Fogest 11y agoThere are many easy ways to get it to from others. Most students at Universities have access to the journal subscriptions as well. They get access by logging in with their University credentials OR using the barcode on their student card. BOTH of these are lost very often. People so often enter their details in a phishing site and lose their credentials, but what can also happen is that someone finds a lost student card and will take a picture of it and post it on Facebook asking if anyone can find x person. This student card is typically on a public Facebook page and anyone could just use that code and get access to a wealth of journals.
- ikeboy 11y agoDo you know how I would go about donating my student access to the site? Do I need to give them my login, or can I run a program on my computer that logs in and downloads without giving anyone else the password?
- smanzer 11y agoPrevious HN discussion (article has neat details of how sci-hub works): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074638
- dang 11y agoThere was another shortly before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070192. We're bending the rules not to treat the current post as a duplicate, but the community interest seems stronger than usual.
- yason 11y agoIs there a tarball of the data somewhere that one could download, redistribute and host somewhere (on the darknet, assumedly)?
- aldanor 11y agoI don't think that's feasible -- scihub requests articles directly from publishers (using legit accounts). Each requested article is cached by libnet.io, so articles are not re-requested twice
- cfcef 11y agoThere are occasional torrents, AFAIK. Hope you have 10tb of free space handy.
- dhj 11y agoIt is absolutely mind blowing to me that you can purchase that amount of storage with 20% to spare for around $500 these days. 12TB, $498 : http://www.amazon.com/Red-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00LO3KR96 http://www.amazon.com/Red-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00LO3K...
- userbinator 11y agoOr around $120 if you just want to archive the data and use tape: http://www.tapeandmedia.com/quantum-lto-6-tape-ultrium-tapes.asp http://www.tapeandmedia.com/quantum-lto-6-tape-ultrium-tapes... The drive isn't cheap though, but tape is still the cheapest media for long-term archival storage.
- cing 11y agoLibrary Genesis, which also includes scientific articles and provides storage for sci-hub, provides a large series of dataset dumps as torrents, http://libgen.io/repository_torrent/ http://libgen.io/repository_torrent/
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- nokya 11y agoI am happy she is doing this. The price that paywalls are charging for accessing research papers is unacceptable: the money does not flow back to the researchers, nor to the institutions. Most of the paywalled research has been sponsored by taxpayer money and hence should be publicly accessible or at a very low "maintenance fee".
- mooseburger 11y agoShe? Is there someone publicly affiliated with the project?
- temp 11y agoYes, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
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- thesimon 11y ago>Despite seizure of the websites as ordered by a New York district court on October 28, 2015, the site is still accessible through alternative domains as of December 2015. So a court in the United States could seize a site just because the plaintiff was based there? Or because the .org domain registry (PIR) is based in the US?
- olympus 11y agoA little bit of both. A US citizen can sue foreign nationals in US courts, but a judgement can't be enforced unless the foreign national steps foot in the US or has a US based asset. In this case, the .org domain is controlled on US soil, so that's about all the court can do unless some crazy extradition arrangement is made or she accidentally forgets and comes to the US for a conference or something.
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- peterhuston 11y agoIn Norway there is free access to NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine and the Lancet (2 month delay). UpToDate, BMJ Best Practice and McMaster Plus is also free. See http://www.helsebiblioteket.no/om-oss/english http://www.helsebiblioteket.no/om-oss/english for information about all included resources. You need to access these resources from a Norwegian IP to get access. From abroad, this can f.ex. be done through Tor if you define only exit through a Norwegian exit node.
- yetanotheracc 11y agoSpeaking of moral courage, how does one contribute institutional login credentials to sci-hub?
- aargh_aargh 11y agoOnly guessing here - you don't provide login credentials, you provide a proxy host within the university IP range as IP-based authentication is still the most commonly used method for licensed databases.
- amelius 11y agoServer seems down (?) Also, isn't this better done over bittorrent?
- max_ 11y agoHow is this diffrent(better) from http://arxiv.org http://arxiv.org ?
- aldanor 11y agoArxiv doesn't let you access paid articles from Springer, Elsevier and the like
- gavazzy 11y agoArxiv is by its nature open access; Arxiv does not charge for access. On the other hand, the articles that this site hosts require payment to access. The journals typically charge $30 / article, or roughly $2,000 / year subscription. Note that for both the open access or paid journals, researchers do NOT receive any compensation when users download articles. That is, despite the research being mostly paid by taxpayers, a PRIVATE company receives compensation for the work done by the researchers. Not only that, but the researchers have to PAY a publication fee, and that fee is higher if they want to allow open-access.
- max_ 11y agoHow come all papers i have come across at the arXiv are readily downloadable as PDF?
- Blahah 11y agoBecause the arxiv is a place that hosts free pre-prints. By contrast, sci-hub is a way to get normally expensive articles for free. Arxiv stuff is already free.
- qft 11y agoNot only the researchers do not receive any compensation, they actually need to PAY the publishers hundreds of dollars minimum to get their work published.
- andrepd 11y agoArxiv is a place to host scientific articles for free. Journals are institutions that scientists submit articles to, get them reviewed, published, and then charge a fee to access them. Sci hub takes the papers in the closed access journals and distributes them online for free. Hope that made it clear.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoIt paints a bulls-eye on her back and its use of the term "piracy" to "free knowledge" doesn't flow well in western sentiments. While I get that the "booty" she is stealing are the fees that the journals would like you to charge, the acts she are creating are more like a librarian letting people check out books without a library card because she has an infinite supply of said books. I am hoping that the rent-seeking behavior of the science journals can be used as the canonical example of how copyright can harm the common good. By endorsing and upholding this egregious use of copyright, our elected officials are clearly causing more harm than good, and the perversion of the spirit of copyright, that an author is granted a temporary monopoly so that they might recover some of their investment, portrays this use as indentured servitude at best, and outright theft at its worst. So while I don't think anyone is really "harmed" because Disney won't release the original Cinderella or employs measures to keep it from being copied. It is very much the case that by creating this barrier to scientific research, a person or group who might change the world in a positive way if they had access, is perhaps even unaware that there is relevant work that they cannot get access to. That is definitely a harm in my opinion. So I hope that the narrative here, which has been dominated by big media for so long, might get some interjection of a more nuanced understanding of why copyright exists, and how to craft laws that embrace that spirit, rather then the rent-seeking interests of the people who live off the work of others.
- leereeves 11y agoThe narrative on copyright has been dominated by big media because every political narrative has been dominated by big media and big money. Those of us who get information from relatively unfiltered and uncontrolled sources via the Internet have long had a different perspective on copyright than those who don't. I too hope that big media's control of the conversation is coming to an end - but they won't lose that control without a fight.
- bobby_9x 11y agoIt's all fun and games, until someone in the open source community wants the same copyright protections from a commercial entity using GNU code without releasing the source.
- pknerd 11y agoWhile searching it goes to Google Scholar. Am I missing something?
- userbinator 11y agoA long time ago (even before Aaron Swartz), when I was still familiar with the active and rapidly growing filesharing community of the time, I vaguely remember reading about an effort by some of the "ebookers" to plant proxies in various universities' networks that would perform much the same function. I wonder what eventually became of it besides the large paper torrents that appeared, but I wouldn't be surprised if SciHub was related to that in some way. Back then, systems were far more open (as opposed to secured), and something like that was easier than it is today.
- kanzure 11y ago> an effort by some of the "ebookers" to plant proxies in various universities' networks that would perform much the same function Yep they did that, it's called ezproxy. https://github.com/kanzure/ezproxy-urls/blob/master/urls.txt https://github.com/kanzure/ezproxy-urls/blob/master/urls.txt scihub uses this AFAIK.
- thecourier 11y agoin memoriam: Aaron Swartz
- noelsusman 11y agoI think people haven't totally thought this open access thing through. First, publishing costs money, even in the digital age. It costs money to comb through submissions and decide which ones are worth pursuing. It costs money to hassle scientists into reviewing the submissions. It costs money to convert every submission into the same format. It costs money to develop and host a website to disseminate the articles. All of these things cost money. Now, who is going to pay for it? Traditionally these costs were put onto the research institutions in the form of library subscription fees. Open access shifts this burden onto the author, and ideally grants would include that into the budget. Even if grants include that in their budget (and many don't yet), there's a finite amount of money available for research. Shifting the cost of publishing onto grants will make funding available for actual research even smaller than it is now. In some fields publishing costs are entirely negligible compared to the cost of research, but in others it's not. Also, open access would mean that you have to have funding in order to publish a paper. As it stands right now you don't actually need funding to do research in certain fields. A math professor at a university can devote some of his spare time to a project over several years and publish a paper on it with no costs at all. This happens all the time, not every paper has funding behind it. I'm not necessarily arguing against open access, I just think people haven't fully explored the downsides of moving away from our current system.
- dalke 11y agoThey've been plenty explored, discussed, chewed over, and more, including the scenarios your presented. The costs have been analyzed in dozens of different ways, with many business models proposed and some executed upon. (Note that your mathematician gets indirect funding by having access to the university library. As a non-academic, I can use the local college library but must pay access fees for some services that are free to staff and students. At a somewhat further away university library, as a visitor I can read journals online but am not permitted to make copies.) Nor is our "current system", concentrated as it is in the hands of Elsevier (and its 37% profit on revenue), all that old. Most people outside the big publishing companies didn't fully explore the downsides of moving away from the system we had before the 1980s - or at the least, nothing like the ongoing discussions concerning open access.
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- bpg_92 11y agoWelp, I used to get books, papers and software from non-legal sources when I was in undegrad, because I just couldn't afford it, now that I make some money I buy most of this stuff. The thing is, without all those resources in the past I couldn't have made it to where I am now. Just my 2 cents.
- coliveira 11y agoKudos to you, there is little respect these days for personal decisions in the area of information access. Pirating information is wrong, doesn't matter how you twist it. There is big difference between creating and promoting free content (great) and trying to break the law to access content that already exists and is subject to copyright law. After all, requesting payment is a deal between publishers and writers. By pirating copyrighted works you're not just breaking the right of publishers, but also the rights of millions of small content creators.
- logicrook 11y agoWhat do you do of researchers that pirate their own books, and tell you never ever to buy their books, but go to libgen? I have met at least 5 world-class scientists say that "because I don't do any money on it anyway", "it's a scam", and "I wrote this book to be read". And tell "it's wonderful to imagine that this poor student read my book, and she was afraid to say she downloaded it illegally"... "Piracy" is a very nuanced subject, depending on what/who you are talking about.
- coliveira 11y agoThere is no nuance there, these people had a personal choice of publishing their books through a traditional publisher and decided for that. It is just a tradeoff that you need to honor. Maybe next time they will just self-publish and have a book that is truly free without the need of pirating.
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- dang 11y agoWe changed the title from "Sci-Hub – Pirate website providing public access to millions of research papers" to what the site itself says. I don't think this was an egregious title rewrite, but the word "pirate" was becoming the subject of discussion, which a title shouldn't be (and that goes double for extraneous ones).
- dbcooper 11y agoThere is very little innovation from academic publishers. Most don't even offer a single download that includes the paper and supplementary materials. E-book files are non-existent. Very expensive publications, like Nature Biotechnology, should at the very least provide a single download (preferably epub) of each issue.
- drethemadrapper 11y agoThere is another service in the pipeline. I came across it very recently; it is in a public-beta phase. It appears to focus on providing access to all digital libraries and specifically serving the third-world or developing countries, mostly in Africa. It has got a different (business) model and uses some advanced technologies for provisions of the articles. Given that they intend subscribing to the publishers, there is no doubt that they will remain in business for as long as the publishers themselves exist. The projects like sci-hub.io, library.no and libgen are highly commendable. It is no news that the third-world countries are destabilized by war, economic sanctions, e.t.c. perpetuated by the world powers thereby making them re-prioritize (access to) their resources. And it is not surprising that webrtc/p2p related services are often times blocked in the first world institutions with access to articles from those digital libraries. Such technologies/protocols/tools are defined/shaped (at standardization meetings - IETF, W3C, e.t.c.) by big corporations in order to preserve their own product offerings.
- Eudyptula_minor 11y agoAs a student who is studying to become a Theoretical Mathematician, I hope Sci-hub stays open for many years ahead. In Finland, we have pretty good access but only if one is a student. Mathematics is so interconnected, that removing paywalls and any obstacles could help uncover breakthroughs by combining ideas from other fellow Mathematicians. I hope UN exercises Article 27 of Human Rights and aligns itself on the right side of history in order to better Science and to encourage curiosity in today's minds and definitely tomorrow's! Pardon my English. Thank you.
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- dineshp2 11y agoSometimes we have no option but to break the law until what is considered illegal is made legal. Storing research papers behind paywalls is absolutely ridiculous. The law literally prevents the development of science. Having personally seen people benefit directly(for purposes of research) from this initiative solidifies my whole hearted support for sci-hub.
- treenyc 11y agoNice. Does anyone know if there is something equivalent to this much like the SSRN (Social Science Research Network) http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/mjensen-20th/ http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/mjensen-20th/ Where you can perform full text search on all the papers?
- iabacu 11y agoCan we download only single articles, or can we download the whole 40M+ collection?