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just tried this and got an error saying too many people on the Science Magazine page.

kanzure 12y ago
> got an error saying too many people on the Science Magazine page. Grab and seed the torrents instead: ftp://libgen.org/repository_torrent/ or donate to 1ENFY4h7ntGZbqwcwpQtXVFJrPnfXRHQLe
- dekhn 12y ago
  Jonathan is looking for legal ways to access the information. His main point is that Science made it hard to access the data (but they did make it possible!) and his secondary point is the terms under which they made it possible were pretty silly (basically, opt-in to spam with no way to easily opt-out until you get the first spam and unsubscribe). I dunno. Actually I think this is what victory feels like for open access publishing, as implemented by the incumbents (who have kicked and dragged their heels on this). It's not clear this is a battle worth fighting; scientists are used to working hard to get data, and if they really want to read a paper in Science (that is available for free), well, you just walked them through the process. It's onerous, but I suspect other battles (like being able to store and process all the documents on the science website via high-throughput means) are more important for the progress of science.
  - jonathaneisen 12y ago
    Sure - this is a small fight. I wrote the post not to get AAAS to provide access to such papers really. I wrote it to point out just how hard AAAS works to make stuff inaccessible. They are generally anti-sharing. And there is no way in hell they would let everyone access the full text of all papers. So it would be better for everyone if nobody published there.
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    In this case, as he's represented he's the author of the article in question and owner of its copyright, it really doesn't matter where he gets it from -- he isn't infringing his own copyright. Once he obtains a copy he can publish it himself.
- juretriglav 12y ago
  These are not the torrents you are looking for. IIRC, there are no torrents for Sci Mag.
dredmorbius 12y ago
LibGen does occasionally get overloaded. Retry later (even only a few minutes) and you're likely to get through.

> got an error saying too many people on the Science Magazine page. Grab and seed the torrents instead: ftp://libgen.org/repository_torrent/ or donate to 1ENFY4h7ntGZbqwcwpQtXVFJrPnfXRHQLe

dekhn 12y ago
Jonathan is looking for legal ways to access the information. His main point is that Science made it hard to access the data (but they did make it possible!) and his secondary point is the terms under which they made it possible were pretty silly (basically, opt-in to spam with no way to easily opt-out until you get the first spam and unsubscribe). I dunno. Actually I think this is what victory feels like for open access publishing, as implemented by the incumbents (who have kicked and dragged their heels on this). It's not clear this is a battle worth fighting; scientists are used to working hard to get data, and if they really want to read a paper in Science (that is available for free), well, you just walked them through the process. It's onerous, but I suspect other battles (like being able to store and process all the documents on the science website via high-throughput means) are more important for the progress of science.
- jonathaneisen 12y ago
  Sure - this is a small fight. I wrote the post not to get AAAS to provide access to such papers really. I wrote it to point out just how hard AAAS works to make stuff inaccessible. They are generally anti-sharing. And there is no way in hell they would let everyone access the full text of all papers. So it would be better for everyone if nobody published there.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  In this case, as he's represented he's the author of the article in question and owner of its copyright, it really doesn't matter where he gets it from -- he isn't infringing his own copyright. Once he obtains a copy he can publish it himself.
juretriglav 12y ago
These are not the torrents you are looking for. IIRC, there are no torrents for Sci Mag.

dredmorbius 12y ago

LibGen does occasionally get overloaded. Retry later (even only a few minutes) and you're likely to get through.