UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)

Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by ImaCake on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:48PM (#26381258)

You don't really need 10 years. Each researcher at UC might be confounded by their local network, but you could argue that is just a casual variable anyway. As for statistical power, UC has >30 researchers and each one of those researchers would access several papers a week. Take the ratio of sci-hub vs non-sci-hub papers accessed per week or month and compare to the month before UC's contract with elsevier ran out. Take the mean and do a t-test. Don't even need timeseries!

I suspect plotting sci-hub/non-sci-hub papers accessed per week for several weeks before and after the contract expiry would dispense with the need for any statistical analysis.

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by smichel17 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:09PM (#26381368)

Or maybe there's been little noise about the change because everyone was using sci-hub already anyway!

I recently introduced a part-time professor to sci-hub, when he was having trouble getting his vpn connection to work, so he could access a paper in a journal. Open access is just easier.

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by sitkack on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:31PM (#26381493)

Does sci-hub release geographic group-by ? She should, I have a corp all access pass to basically everything, and I still sci-hub.

The racist, classist control of information has to stop. It should basically be a reverse paywall.

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