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We need teams of people working on decentralizing any important information sources like this, with mirrors and open protocols that don’t have single points of
by jslezak 2y ago
We need teams of people working on decentralizing any important information sources like this, with mirrors and open protocols that don’t have single points of failure
- lr1970 2y agoShould sci-hub take arXiv under its wing? A great way to gain legitimacy.
- mmooss 2y ago> A great way to gain legitimacy. Is that sarcastic? arXiv is legal and mainstream, used by professionals; sci-hub is illegal.
- PaulHoule 2y agosci-hub is still used by professionals even though it is illegal
- mmooss 2y agoProfessionals in wealthy countries have access to licensed, legal sources. Do you mean people in other countries?
- _Algernon_ 2y agoWhen I had access to academic journals through my (western, wealthy) institution I would still mostly use scihub. The simple reason was that I got conditioned to doing that because the login wall to doing it legitimately was often too painful. At a certain point my workflow switched to checking scihub first, then going the legal path if scihub failed. It saves a lot of time, and I suspect it is a lot more common than most people think.
- jfaulken 2y agoI'm gonna guess they meant the other direction.
- mmooss 2y agoAcquiring a massive library of unlicensed IP, the best-known such library in the world, would also seem to destroy arXiv's credibility with those in power and I expect would be the end of arXiv.
- lr1970 2y agosci-hub's legitimacy.
- abetusk 2y agoAnna's Archive [0]. [0] https://annas-archive.org/ https://annas-archive.org/