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hexaune
12th February 2016, 13:24
This russian woman has done something absolutly amazing and thought it might be of interest to anyone on here who is into the sciences:


http://sci-hub.io/



The site works in two stages. First of all when you search for a paper, Sci-Hub tries to immediately download it from fellow pirate database LibGen. If that doesn't work, Sci-Hub is able to bypass journal paywalls thanks to a range of access keys that have been donated by anonymous academics (thank you, science spies).

This means that Sci-Hub can instantly access any paper published by the big guys, including JSTOR, Springer, Sage, and Elsevier, and deliver it to you for free within seconds. The site then automatically sends a copy of that paper to LibGen, to help share the love.

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-attempt-to-open-up-science

Tim Cornelis
12th February 2016, 13:48
yeah I just read that. Amazing!

I'm going to download 'the economics of pure communism', probably a shitty article, and even when good, it's not worth paying 43 us dollars for 12 fucking pages! Are you kidding?!

hexaune
12th February 2016, 14:06
yeah I just read that. Amazing!

I'm going to download 'the economics of pure communism', probably a shitty article, and even when good, it's not worth paying 43 us dollars for 12 fucking pages! Are you kidding?!

Its crazy how expensive it is, you know something is going wrong when even leading universities are saying they can't afford to pay for all of the journals their students/researchers... need to access. I'd always assumed some of the money went back to the author of the journals or the faculty they work for, I was really shocked to find out all of it went to the publishers.

Tim Cornelis
12th February 2016, 15:31
I'm on a download binge.

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