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Re:Science’s pirate queen by weinzierl on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:11AM (#21099112)
She single-handedly fulfilled one important part of Google's mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." A part that a company like Google could never fulfill itself.
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Re:Science’s pirate queen by Iv on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:50AM (#21105746)
To be fair to Google, Youtube really changed the way the MAFIAA reacted to online music and videos. They did that for culture, they failed for science.
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Re:Science’s pirate queen by buboard on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:15AM (#21099122)
Sadly they fulfil it in the most restrictive manner: google scholar is given access to every publication, in order to advertise their paywalls
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Re:Science’s pirate queen by leni536 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:25AM (#21099148)
To be fair google scholar lists arxiv preprints as well if available.
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