Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name

Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by SeanLuke on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:17PM (#11638511)

By "venture" I don't mean for-profit: absolutely nothing we were building was going to be for-profit. It'd be all open content.

I abandoned the project well before the infrastructure was ready for prime time: the tenure clock beckoned.

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by chris_wot on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:38PM (#11638684)

I totally understand :-)

What do you think of Wikiversity's Journal of Medicine? It's a decent stab at a reputable open journal:

http://www.wijoumed.org/

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by SeanLuke on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:37PM (#11639845)

It looks interesting but a bit spooky. A real editorial board would have dozens of action editors. They only require a single review, and it's not entirely clear what the process is. They also permit rubriq, which has ill-defined measures for review quality and payment, kind of amazing given that it's wading into an area of very problematic ethics.

This doesn't feel like a major player yet, but what do I know, I'm not in medicine. In my field, reputable open journals would be things like PLOS One, JMLR, and JAIR.

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