In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub

Re:In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub by red_blobs on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:49PM (#12374809)

This will only hurt the science community. You need money to fund these publications and the scientists that are leaking the publications aren't actually funding the research with their own money.

A better idea would be to fund publications yourself (with your own money) and release all of the information for free.

But it takes much more talent, intelligence, and discipline to do something like this, which most people don't have.

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Re:In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub by dlgeek on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:20PM (#12374882)

The money to/from the publication doesn't fund the research or the author, or even the peer reviewers, just the journal itself.

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Re:In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub by titanomachy on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:14PM (#12375145)

Yeah, the peer reviewers work for free and the authors actually pay to be in the journal. It's a deeply broken system.

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Re:In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub by frayesto on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:23PM (#12374887)

As a graduate student, I've been quite determined to post all of my papers and code to github/arxiv/personal website.

Most journals allow you to freely distribute pre-prints, and most researchers I know do this very frequently.

The entire scientific publication environment is quite convoluted but there is a large effort for open publications.

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