Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed

Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by wongarsu on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:51PM (#14869373)

I prefer PDFs. Easy to read, easy to print, no weird layout.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by bloaf on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:11PM (#14870559)

They're pretty bad for meta-scientific research. That is, they are very much a for-human-eyeballs-only format.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by 3131s on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:55PM (#14871842)

Agreed, I've download parts of the sci-hub archive and want to analyze the articles but I can never even get a decent solution for extracting multilingual text. I've tried the well-known open source tools for this and none have really been satisfactory.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by codegladiator on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:28AM (#14873226)

Try narrowing down to papers in English only ? Why try to deal with a problem which has no feasible solution for now ?

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by andybak on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:31PM (#14869794)

I hate PDFs. Hard to read, don't own a printer, weird layout.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by davesque on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:57PM (#14869990)

I hate hating PDFs. Hard to not read, don't not own a printer, unweird layout. Disagreeing is fun. Did I do it right?

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by andybak on Saturday July 29, 2017 @09:11PM (#14883877)

I actually meant what I said, though.

HTML (in some reasonable form) is my favourite format for reading text.

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