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It's only a matter of time before Sci-hub is shut down completely. The eight things the author suggests "to make science free, open, and accessible" remind me
by jancsika 6y ago
It's only a matter of time before Sci-hub is shut down completely.
The eight things the author suggests "to make science free, open, and accessible" remind me of Borges' short story "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote."
Don't suggest replicating the sci-hub database. Don't suggest changing the laws that make sci-hub illegal. Instead, let's get out our paper swords and attack each of our own pay-walled articles, one at a time, reinforced by tiny CV revisions that move up open access publications from page 3 to page 2.
Seriously-- let's manually rewrite an entire 33 terabyte database so that in forever minus a day we end up with 33 terabytes of the same content, in the same form, but for different reasons.
Consider retrieving [insert journal article here] on Elbakyan's site: it's a mere mechanical act.
But consider looking up [insert journal article here] on an open access site where the author purposely went through the physical labor of ensuring open access. Here's there's something truly revolutionary in the act of downloading such an article-- an act not only of sharing in a body on knowledge greater than one's self, but also acting in solidarity with a purposeful act of defiance on part of the author.