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Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals
- biehl 10y agoHow about "Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ? Or maybe "Librarians in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ?
- sctb 10y agoPrevious related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187315
- jmnicholson 10y agoI think science is at an interesting point. We've just had our Napster moment with Sci-hub. We'll soon have our Youtube moments with Authorea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1ObxI_dqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1ObxI_dqU) and the rise of preprints in new disciplines, In short, I see self-publishing and dissemination increasing in the coming years. Maybe we'll have our Justin Bieber of research quite soon!
- trendia 10y agoAuthorea looks cool, but you should probably disclose in the comment that you are associated with it. You might even get more attention to it that way, too.
- neuromantik8086 10y agoI think you mean Tay Zonday.
- a3n 10y agoWhy not change "publish or perish" to "edit, review or publish or perish?" Gather a union of universities, or a guild or whatnot, and publish through guild venues.
- kaffee 10y agoTitle is inaccurate. The scientists in question can simply go to sci-hub and input the DOI to access the Elsevier articles. We need more heroes like Alexandra Elbakyan.
- yladiz 10y agoThis isn't a solution because, while yes, it does allow them to access some/all of the specific journals and articles the academics would need to use, but the schools/country aren't going to advocate for this since they want the contract with Elsevier in general even if they don't like the terms.
- rvern 10y agoIt isn't a solution in theory, but it's a great solution in practice. You're right that the schools won't advocate so-called piracy, but they don't seem to care too much about dropping the subscriptions either.
- freddref 10y agoThis is an excellent solution. Schools should really advocate for this. The law is counter-productive in it's current form.
- posterboy 10y agoUnless the article is not available there
- jrochkind1 10y agoHow long til Elsevier sues scihub? What scihub does isn't possibly legal, is it?
- schoen 10y agoAbout negative 19 months (Elsevier filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub on June 3, 2015). http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/18/elsevier-v-sci-hub-on-the-docket/ http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/18/elsevier-v-sci-h...
- maverick_iceman 10y agoIn subjects like physics journals are already an anachronism as everything is published and referred via arXiv anyway.