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What I read in this is that sci-hub is only a third of the solution of cutting out the middle man. The another third is a credible place for researchers to pub
by tastyfreeze 3y ago
What I read in this is that sci-hub is only a third of the solution of cutting out the middle man. The another third is a credible place for researchers to publish to. The current publishers are trying to retain a dead model. We don't really need a publisher anymore. What they do provide that I haven't seed a good solution for is visibility among peers.
Sci-hub is great to grab a paper when you already know the DOI. If you are looking for papers in a specific field you will usually end up on a publisher's site using their search engine.
If researchers could easily browse papers relevant to them I think they would dump publishers all together. The expense of prestige can't hold up over time against a more efficient model that costs way less.
- eternalban 3y ago> If researchers could easily browse papers relevant to them I think they would dump publishers all together. The expense of prestige can't hold up over time against a more efficient model that costs way less. arXiv is an emerging solution. The peer review bit is missing. https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning 2022: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arxiv-org-reaches-a-milestone-and-a-reckoning/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arxiv-org-reaches...
- robertlagrant 3y agoIt would be good if arxiv somehow standardised how to capture methodology. E.g. population size, sample size, sample selection method, computed values to demonstrate outcome, etc etc, to make review as easy as possible. And then if the computed values are successfully challenged, they can be updated and the trust in the paper's conclusions adjusted.
- starbird3000 3y agoAlso missing are viable costs. If arXiv didn't have the support of some nonprofit societies and grants from foundations, it would be in significant trouble.
- was_a_dev 3y agoGoogle Scholar, Arxiv and Researchgate make a pretty robust solution for paper discovery
- PeterisP 3y agoThey don't provide a good solution for filtered/ranked paper discovery, one where someone else sorts the papers so you have to skim through less garbage. For paper discovery the main problem is the overabundance of noise, not the ability to find everything (which is indeed solved already). There are excellent papers both on Arxiv as well as in (for example) NeurIPS proceedings, and there is is trash both on Arxiv as well as in NeurIPS proceedings; but the signal-to-noise ratio is vastly different. And the effect of the 25%-ish acceptance rate in many publication venues is not just cutting out 75% of the papers, because for each rejected paper there's probably two (or a dozen?) more which don't even get submitted there because the authors know it'll get rejected, so such a filter removes 90% or more of papers in a manner that's correlated (definitely imperfectly, but still meaningfully) to whether you'd want to read or skim them.
- jasonm23 3y agoThis may be naive but, doesn't Sci-Hub provide visibility?
- tastyfreeze 3y agoThe search on sci-hub is not great. It is best when you know the DOI of what you want.
- checkyoursudo 3y agoDidn't sci-hub stop adding new papers? Has that changed?
- tastyfreeze 3y agoStill going on until the lawsuit in India is resolved. I have a couple papers I have been trying to get for almost a year. Can't get them on Sci-Hub and the authors never responded when I asked directly.