Pirate Bay of science

[pErvinalia]

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers.

For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science.

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[Feck]

Thanks, it always was annoying to find the titles and summary of papers I needed but not the full texts online .
and scientific papers should be released free ,maybe after one year so the journals can still make a profit .

[pErvinalia]

I used to have access to pretty much everything as an employee of a major university. But lost it after I quit (took nearly a year as I wasn't taken off the books at one of my jobs). I really miss journal access. I'm going to have a look at this.

[Brian Peacock]

Bookmarked.

[JimC]

Sounds like something Cali would be into...

[BarnettNewman]

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[pErvinalia]

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