Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet
Brewchin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d love to see DOI automating a copy of each entry to archive.org. This would improve the likelihood of them remaining available.
Sure, it would make grifters like Elsevier mad, but scientific knowledge worth a DOI entry shouldn’t be limited to a for-profit organisation.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
you’re thinking of scihub
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
So you can mirror all of it for about $2000?
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Surprisingly cheap TBH…
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
elsevier doesn’t want you to know that, but you can download sum total of human knowledge for free. i have 3924 papers
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
yeah it’s even out there as a list of torrents
bobo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
except Sci-hub hasn’t been adding new papers since 2020. Anna’s Archive is a better bet, because they aggregate both sci-hub and libgen, among others. They also make torrents available for data hoarders. Their torrents total over 600 TB at this point, but include books in addition to articles.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
sci-hub and libgen already outputs list of torrents. do they also archive supplementary information? that’s where most of actual interesting data is, sometimes it’s open source, sometimes it’s not. (at least in my field)