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The thing I am concerned about with SciHub is its centralized nature. So far it has resisted everything, but supposed that eventually Elsevier manages to land E

The thing I am concerned about with SciHub is its centralized nature. So far it has resisted everything, but supposed that eventually Elsevier manages to land Elbakyan in jail, or hack back SciHub and delete its content, what would happen? I'd be much much happier to see the material kept in a more resilient configuration (IPFS, database dumps, ...) so that other entities can back it up. And I'd also be happy if the paper collection segment was free software, so that other entities could cooperate in case the original SciHub went down.

xkeysc0re 6y ago
There are several ongoing efforts to maintain an archive of SciHub https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ky647/scihub_repository_torrents_of_scientific_papers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ky647/scihub_... https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying... The paper collection software, if I recall correctly, is actually quite simple and uses APIs provided by publishers. It's the store of credentials that SciHub uses (that are provided by academics and scientists) which truly powers the site
jerheinze 6y ago
> I'd be much much happier to see the material kept in a more resilient configuration (IPFS, database dumps, ...) so that other entities can back it up. For IPFS have a look at https://libgen.fun/ https://libgen.fun/ and https://freeread.org/ipfs/ https://freeread.org/ipfs/ Also see the HN thread on those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246
- m-p-3 6y ago
  Something like https://collab.ipfscluster.io/ https://collab.ipfscluster.io/, where you could simply decide to become part of the cluster and host data would be nice. Maybe with some granularity, because I doubt many of us would have enough storage to spare to mirror the whole thing.
j-james 6y ago
It backs up to Library Genesis. And while the paper collection software isn't FOSS, it's really the idea behind article sourcing that's important.

xkeysc0re 6y ago

There are several ongoing efforts to maintain an archive of SciHub https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ky647/scihub_repository_torrents_of_scientific_papers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ky647/scihub_... https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying... The paper collection software, if I recall correctly, is actually quite simple and uses APIs provided by publishers. It's the store of credentials that SciHub uses (that are provided by academics and scientists) which truly powers the site

jerheinze 6y ago

> I'd be much much happier to see the material kept in a more resilient configuration (IPFS, database dumps, ...) so that other entities can back it up. For IPFS have a look at https://libgen.fun/ https://libgen.fun/ and https://freeread.org/ipfs/ https://freeread.org/ipfs/ Also see the HN thread on those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246

m-p-3 6y ago
Something like https://collab.ipfscluster.io/ https://collab.ipfscluster.io/, where you could simply decide to become part of the cluster and host data would be nice. Maybe with some granularity, because I doubt many of us would have enough storage to spare to mirror the whole thing.

j-james 6y ago

It backs up to Library Genesis. And while the paper collection software isn't FOSS, it's really the idea behind article sourcing that's important.