Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub
by paulhilbert on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:38AM
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I read this quite often and frankly do not understand it. How is Elsevier worse than ACM, IEEE or Springer? I found them to be equally intolerable but still Elsevier gets routinely picked as the prime example...
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Elsevier are disliked for litigation against scihub+libgen, IIRC? Also might be noteworthy that they have a long controversies section on their wikipedia page (including lots of things I'd never read about until now) while Springer and IEEE have none listed.
I couldn't find ACM, what does it stand for?
Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub
by neurocline on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:42PM
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Association for Computing Machinery. Theoretically everyone in the computer science field is not just aware of them but is a member :)
Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub
by paulhilbert on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:45AM
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Yes. I work in CS in the field of Computer Graphics and (by association) Computer Vision and Robotics. Our top conferences and journals are by ACM. However there are a few journals by Elsevier and IEEE which are relevant. I do not have (legal) access to any of those three. However there are publishers who allow authors private/institutional hosting of their papers without paying additional open access fees. I would still doubt their legitimacy in tax funded research results...