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by sixtyfourbits 5y ago
It depends on the circumstances and the publisher. In many cases publishers permit authors to host the accepted version of the paper (but not the final version that includes revisions based on reviewer feedback) on their personal/insti
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by sixtyfourbits 5y ago
It's all PDF files, which have their own compression, so it's unlikely there would be substantial gain from additional compression. Each torrent has 100 zip files, and each zip file has 1000 PDFs, but the files are stored uncompre
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by sixtyfourbits 5y ago
Probably; use a VPN. Yes they're copyrighted - albeit not by the authors who actually wrote them, but by the publishers who require copyright assignment for the privilege of having your work hosted on their website.
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by sixtyfourbits 5y ago
Torrent seeding effort: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... All papers on sci-hub are available as torrents from library genesis. The full collection contains 85 million artic
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How do I even do research anymore?(reddit.com)
2 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago|0 comments
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How Academic Pirate Alexandra Elbakyan Is Fighting Scientific Misinformation(vice.com)
57 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago|1 comments
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Peer reviewers and editor wanted to publish my paper. The legal team rejected it(retractionwatch.com)
9 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago|0 comments
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Archivists Want to Make Sci-Hub 'Un-Censorable'(gizmodo.com)
11 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago|0 comments
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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We Are the Library(reddit.com)
5 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago|0 comments
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by sixtyfourbits 6y ago
There's been an ongoing effort for a bit over a year now to make sure the torrents from sci-hub's archive are sufficiently well seeded (specifically, the scimag collection from library genesis, available at libgen.rs). It's a
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Sci-Hub Case: Academics Urge Court to Rule Against ‘Extortionate Practices’(science.thewire.in)
1 points by sixtyfourbits 6y ago|0 comments
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by sixtyfourbits 6y ago
The ACM did this with their digital library to support people during working/studying remotely during COVID but seemingly had a change of heart and put the paywall back up a short while after receiving all the positive publicity despit
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Cases against Sci-Hub and Libgen consequences to research and education in India(frontline.thehindu.com)
2 points by sixtyfourbits 6y ago|0 comments
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'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print(theguardian.com)
13 points by sixtyfourbits 6y ago|1 comments
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by sixtyfourbits 6y ago
Wait till they find out about library genesis...
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Open Access is not a Panacea, even if it’s Radical(papers.ssrn.com)
14 points by sixtyfourbits 6y ago|9 comments
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by sixtyfourbits 6y ago
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ It's something like 75TB last time I checked, over 82 million articles in total. Each torrent contains 100
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)(paywallthemovie.com)
2 points by sixtyfourbits 7y ago|0 comments
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by sixtyfourbits 7y ago
I made a torrent: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96208ba12ca7ffdac5b5adccf1a41e484de94f4a&dn=freedb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppe