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Sci-Hub new published papers are now available

273 points by NmAmDa 5y ago

unmole 5y ago
Did they get tired of waiting for the case in the Delhi High Court?
- NmAmDa 5y ago
  She said that her lawyers determined that court order should have been expired
- Santosh83 5y ago
  Somebody mentioned in yesterday's big thread that the stay on uploading new stuff was only temporary (for two or so weeks), so the case itself continues, but ban on uploading is no longer in effect.
dr_dshiv 5y ago
Why don't I donate to Sci-Hub? I'm terrified it will go away like Napster did. Update: because (unlike wikipedia) they only take cryptocurrencies. I get it! https://sci-hub.se/donate https://sci-hub.se/donate Anyone want to donate and I'll match your donation to wikipedia?
- NmAmDa 5y ago
  People donate to help avoid this from happening
  - azalemeth 5y ago
    I'd love an actual legal opinion about whether or not it's okay to donate to SciHub in different countries. I know it's all crypto, but you could imagine that some places might have a dim view of financially supporting what is unfortunately likely to be viewed as a "serious" criminal enterprise.
    - Aachen 5y ago
      I've donated from Germany. No police yet, though to be fair I also didn't try to deduct it from taxes. Maybe I should try that and report back.
      - colechristensen 5y ago
        In the US tax deductions can be made only for donating to legal entities of a specific type, i.e. a nonprofit org. These aren’t arbitrary things you can say to receive donations but have to register as a certain kind of business. That either exists or it doesn’t. I would assume something similar is true in Germany.
    - cbg0 5y ago
      Not a lawyer, but if your justice department decides to go after Alexandra Elbakyan, they could in theory also charge you as an accessory, though this will vary wildly depending on which country you live in.
    - arglebarglegar 5y ago
      if more people donate it seems less likely that anyone would go after individual donors… not the reassurance you’re after, but it might be the best you can get
    - boramalper 5y ago
      Use Monero?
    - intunderflow 5y ago
      You could donate via Monero so from the Sci-Hub side its impossible to track back to you
    - LanternLight83 5y ago
      Well, they accept a good variety of crypto, including the notoriously anonymous XMR
    - elil17 5y ago
      See USA vs. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. People who ran a charity which gave money to another charity which helped orphans, some of whom allegedly (according to an anonymous tipster) happened to be orphaned because their parents had committed terrorist attacks, were sentenced to 65 years in prison.
- not1ofU 5y ago
  you donated to Napster?
notriddle 5y ago
Did they resume copying papers into libgen scimag?
- andyxor 5y ago
  doesn't look like it, still seeing 852 torrents as a month ago http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/ http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/
temp8964 5y ago
Top last names of authors are bascially top Chinese last names (or top last names in the world?). This is not surprising, but kind of funny.
- enriquto 5y ago
  Why is that? Does chinese have a smallest amount of different names than english?
  - temp8964 5y ago
    Yes. Check this: https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/chinese-name/surnames/ https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/chinese-name/surnames/ Top 3 is 22% of population. Top 10 is 44% of population.
    - londons_explore 5y ago
      That seems... Suboptimal... It almost seems worth the people with the most common names to permute them in some way to make them more unique - like 'double barreled' names in England.
      - krrrh 5y ago
        Kurt Vonnegut has a novel called Slapstick (Lonesome No More) where the president of the US figures that a lot of societal problems are due to the loss of the extended family. His solution is to assign everyone a new middle name. > 'Well,' I said, 'you might become Elmer Uranium-3 Grasso, say. Everybody with Uranium as a part of their middle name would be your cousin.' Sounds silly, but it just might work, and I could actually see the CPC going ahead with something like this. https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome
      - Stupulous 5y ago
        It's unusual, you'd expect more names with more people. Maybe it's a cultural difference of how much we value individuality vs the collective? Or maybe not. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US, and 294,000 Zhang Weis in China, which is relatively close to parity as a percentage of population. Zhang Wei is about twice as common. I don't know if this is some statistical artifact, and if the US would trend in that direction with more people.
prirai 5y ago
Also a group of people are trying to help SciHub (unofficially) by setting up IPFS and Torrents of 40GB packets each in case SciHub is blocked in some country.
- Qem 5y ago
  I wonder how much space the entire contents of SciHub would occupy, if they extracted just the plaintext from all articles and packed it. It would be great being able to grep every scientific paper ever published.
fanf2 5y ago
from Google translate: Today is September 5th - the birthday of the Sci-Hub project and the project is already 10 years old. In honor of such a round date, two million new articles have been added to the server today, specifically 2,337,229. What is inside? Most of all new documents are from Elsevier publishing house - about half a million. Springer is in second place with three hundred thousand articles, Wiley is slightly behind him. In principle, nothing surprising, these are the largest publishers today. But in general, there are more than a hundred different publishing houses. Elsevier BV 508,566 Springer 305,690 Wiley 201,556 IEEE 169,849 MDPI AG 139,788 American Chemical Society 109,970 Informa UK Limited 103,820 De Gruyter 80.346 University of Chicago Press 71,098 AMPCo 61,394 SAGE Publications 60.359 IOP Publishing 53,736 Association for Computing Machinery 50,173 Which authors have been the most productive? In the top of the authors' surnames, the Chinese with the surnames Wang, Li and Zhang are in the lead: Wang 33,236 Li 28,550 Zhang 28,127 Liu 21,770 Chen 18,575 Yang 12.407 Wu 9,574 Kim 9.044 Zhao 8.467 Xu 8,833 And what about Russian surnames? The Ivanovs published only 400 articles, with 266 articles being for men and 134 for women. With the Petrovs, the picture is similar: 96 articles were published by men and 68 by women. According to statistics, Smirnov and Popov are among the most common Russian surnames, everything is exactly the same here: with the surname Smirnov 96 publications, with the surname Smirnov 44, with the surname Popov 139 publications, with the surname Popova 54. Such statistics may indicate discrimination against women in our science. It is not possible to verify whether it exists in foreign science, since foreign surnames do not contain gender characteristics. What are the research topics? To determine the topic of the article, I used the Scopus database, which lists the topics of each journal. In general, the base is, of course, strange, the principle of classification of sciences is not very clear. But in general, it turns out that medicine is leading in terms of the number of articles: 398,548 Medicine 184,598 Engineering Sciences 171,929 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 161,897 Social sciencies 161,299 Physics and Astronomy 153,263 Materials Science 143,748 Chemistry 107,171 Computer science 105,952 Ecology 91,907 Humanitarian sciences 89,494 Agricultural sciences 87,601 Chemical Technology 65,280 Maths 62.053 Planetology 44,210 Energy 43.036 Immunology and Microbiology 37,173 Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals 31,487 Psychology 28,642 Neurosciences 23,449 Nursing 21,386 Business, management and accounting 21,142 Economics and finance 17,247 Medical professions 13.406 Veterinary 10.667 Decision theory 7.310 Dentistry It would also be interesting to check on what topics the articles are mainly published by women authors and on what topics are men. I will do this later.
legrande 5y ago
Always interesting to see pirate sites having multiple ccTLDs in an attempt to stop shutdowns. It doesn't do anything, it's just OPSEC theater. Sci-Hub needs to burrow itself in the dark web, but it may be too late. The lady behind the show is well known...
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  The ultimate aim of Sci-Hub is for Sci-Hub to not be a pirate site in as many jurisdictions as possible. I think it's possible to achieve that goal.
- nicoburns 5y ago
  > It doesn't do anything It does in countries like the UK that legally mandate ISPs to block sites at the DNS level.
- ajaimk 5y ago
  That beats the purpose of sci-hub… People should be able to access this information on the internet; not have to google, “how to use the darknet?” First
  - Anunayj 5y ago
    And I like I can simply go to the scihub domain from my mobile, paste a link and have a pdf. Instead of having to download tor, try to find the url somewhere.
- CamperBob2 5y ago
  They also use multiple TLDs to stay one step ahead of US authorities who apply pressure to the domain registrars. .se has worked for a long time now, but .tw no longer does, and I guess she's on .ru now, going by the headline.
dang 5y ago
Recent and related: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421477 - Sept 2021 (159 comments)
anotheryou 5y ago
Is it possible to publish exclusively on sci-hub? That would be a fun move.
- gandalfgreybeer 5y ago
  Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that’s really what it’s for. Publishing exclusively in arXiv would fit in with the spirit of what you’re going for.
  - anotheryou 5y ago
    I know. It would just be fun to force people to use the dark grey market.

273 points by NmAmDa 5y ago

unmole 5y ago

Did they get tired of waiting for the case in the Delhi High Court?

NmAmDa 5y ago
She said that her lawyers determined that court order should have been expired
Santosh83 5y ago
Somebody mentioned in yesterday's big thread that the stay on uploading new stuff was only temporary (for two or so weeks), so the case itself continues, but ban on uploading is no longer in effect.

dr_dshiv 5y ago

Why don't I donate to Sci-Hub? I'm terrified it will go away like Napster did. Update: because (unlike wikipedia) they only take cryptocurrencies. I get it! https://sci-hub.se/donate https://sci-hub.se/donate Anyone want to donate and I'll match your donation to wikipedia?

NmAmDa 5y ago
People donate to help avoid this from happening
- azalemeth 5y ago
  I'd love an actual legal opinion about whether or not it's okay to donate to SciHub in different countries. I know it's all crypto, but you could imagine that some places might have a dim view of financially supporting what is unfortunately likely to be viewed as a "serious" criminal enterprise.
  - Aachen 5y ago
    I've donated from Germany. No police yet, though to be fair I also didn't try to deduct it from taxes. Maybe I should try that and report back.
    - colechristensen 5y ago
      In the US tax deductions can be made only for donating to legal entities of a specific type, i.e. a nonprofit org. These aren’t arbitrary things you can say to receive donations but have to register as a certain kind of business. That either exists or it doesn’t. I would assume something similar is true in Germany.
  - cbg0 5y ago
    Not a lawyer, but if your justice department decides to go after Alexandra Elbakyan, they could in theory also charge you as an accessory, though this will vary wildly depending on which country you live in.
  - arglebarglegar 5y ago
    if more people donate it seems less likely that anyone would go after individual donors… not the reassurance you’re after, but it might be the best you can get
  - boramalper 5y ago
    Use Monero?
  - intunderflow 5y ago
    You could donate via Monero so from the Sci-Hub side its impossible to track back to you
  - LanternLight83 5y ago
    Well, they accept a good variety of crypto, including the notoriously anonymous XMR
  - elil17 5y ago
    See USA vs. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. People who ran a charity which gave money to another charity which helped orphans, some of whom allegedly (according to an anonymous tipster) happened to be orphaned because their parents had committed terrorist attacks, were sentenced to 65 years in prison.
not1ofU 5y ago
you donated to Napster?

notriddle 5y ago

Did they resume copying papers into libgen scimag?

andyxor 5y ago
doesn't look like it, still seeing 852 torrents as a month ago http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/ http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/

temp8964 5y ago

Top last names of authors are bascially top Chinese last names (or top last names in the world?). This is not surprising, but kind of funny.

enriquto 5y ago
Why is that? Does chinese have a smallest amount of different names than english?
- temp8964 5y ago
  Yes. Check this: https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/chinese-name/surnames/ https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/chinese-name/surnames/ Top 3 is 22% of population. Top 10 is 44% of population.
  - londons_explore 5y ago
    That seems... Suboptimal... It almost seems worth the people with the most common names to permute them in some way to make them more unique - like 'double barreled' names in England.
    - krrrh 5y ago
      Kurt Vonnegut has a novel called Slapstick (Lonesome No More) where the president of the US figures that a lot of societal problems are due to the loss of the extended family. His solution is to assign everyone a new middle name. > 'Well,' I said, 'you might become Elmer Uranium-3 Grasso, say. Everybody with Uranium as a part of their middle name would be your cousin.' Sounds silly, but it just might work, and I could actually see the CPC going ahead with something like this. https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome https://thesurrealist.co.uk/lonesome
    - Stupulous 5y ago
      It's unusual, you'd expect more names with more people. Maybe it's a cultural difference of how much we value individuality vs the collective? Or maybe not. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US, and 294,000 Zhang Weis in China, which is relatively close to parity as a percentage of population. Zhang Wei is about twice as common. I don't know if this is some statistical artifact, and if the US would trend in that direction with more people.

prirai 5y ago

Also a group of people are trying to help SciHub (unofficially) by setting up IPFS and Torrents of 40GB packets each in case SciHub is blocked in some country.

Qem 5y ago
I wonder how much space the entire contents of SciHub would occupy, if they extracted just the plaintext from all articles and packed it. It would be great being able to grep every scientific paper ever published.

fanf2 5y ago

from Google translate: Today is September 5th - the birthday of the Sci-Hub project and the project is already 10 years old. In honor of such a round date, two million new articles have been added to the server today, specifically 2,337,229. What is inside? Most of all new documents are from Elsevier publishing house - about half a million. Springer is in second place with three hundred thousand articles, Wiley is slightly behind him. In principle, nothing surprising, these are the largest publishers today. But in general, there are more than a hundred different publishing houses. Elsevier BV 508,566 Springer 305,690 Wiley 201,556 IEEE 169,849 MDPI AG 139,788 American Chemical Society 109,970 Informa UK Limited 103,820 De Gruyter 80.346 University of Chicago Press 71,098 AMPCo 61,394 SAGE Publications 60.359 IOP Publishing 53,736 Association for Computing Machinery 50,173 Which authors have been the most productive? In the top of the authors' surnames, the Chinese with the surnames Wang, Li and Zhang are in the lead: Wang 33,236 Li 28,550 Zhang 28,127 Liu 21,770 Chen 18,575 Yang 12.407 Wu 9,574 Kim 9.044 Zhao 8.467 Xu 8,833 And what about Russian surnames? The Ivanovs published only 400 articles, with 266 articles being for men and 134 for women. With the Petrovs, the picture is similar: 96 articles were published by men and 68 by women. According to statistics, Smirnov and Popov are among the most common Russian surnames, everything is exactly the same here: with the surname Smirnov 96 publications, with the surname Smirnov 44, with the surname Popov 139 publications, with the surname Popova 54. Such statistics may indicate discrimination against women in our science. It is not possible to verify whether it exists in foreign science, since foreign surnames do not contain gender characteristics. What are the research topics? To determine the topic of the article, I used the Scopus database, which lists the topics of each journal. In general, the base is, of course, strange, the principle of classification of sciences is not very clear. But in general, it turns out that medicine is leading in terms of the number of articles: 398,548 Medicine 184,598 Engineering Sciences 171,929 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 161,897 Social sciencies 161,299 Physics and Astronomy 153,263 Materials Science 143,748 Chemistry 107,171 Computer science 105,952 Ecology 91,907 Humanitarian sciences 89,494 Agricultural sciences 87,601 Chemical Technology 65,280 Maths 62.053 Planetology 44,210 Energy 43.036 Immunology and Microbiology 37,173 Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals 31,487 Psychology 28,642 Neurosciences 23,449 Nursing 21,386 Business, management and accounting 21,142 Economics and finance 17,247 Medical professions 13.406 Veterinary 10.667 Decision theory 7.310 Dentistry It would also be interesting to check on what topics the articles are mainly published by women authors and on what topics are men. I will do this later.

legrande 5y ago

Always interesting to see pirate sites having multiple ccTLDs in an attempt to stop shutdowns. It doesn't do anything, it's just OPSEC theater. Sci-Hub needs to burrow itself in the dark web, but it may be too late. The lady behind the show is well known...

wizzwizz4 5y ago
The ultimate aim of Sci-Hub is for Sci-Hub to not be a pirate site in as many jurisdictions as possible. I think it's possible to achieve that goal.
nicoburns 5y ago
> It doesn't do anything It does in countries like the UK that legally mandate ISPs to block sites at the DNS level.
ajaimk 5y ago
That beats the purpose of sci-hub… People should be able to access this information on the internet; not have to google, “how to use the darknet?” First
- Anunayj 5y ago
  And I like I can simply go to the scihub domain from my mobile, paste a link and have a pdf. Instead of having to download tor, try to find the url somewhere.
CamperBob2 5y ago
They also use multiple TLDs to stay one step ahead of US authorities who apply pressure to the domain registrars. .se has worked for a long time now, but .tw no longer does, and I guess she's on .ru now, going by the headline.

dang 5y ago

Recent and related: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421477 - Sept 2021 (159 comments)

anotheryou 5y ago

Is it possible to publish exclusively on sci-hub? That would be a fun move.

gandalfgreybeer 5y ago
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that’s really what it’s for. Publishing exclusively in arXiv would fit in with the spirit of what you’re going for.
- anotheryou 5y ago
  I know. It would just be fun to force people to use the dark grey market.