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

Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by asdff on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:45PM (#26381559)

Luckily nearly every university offers their library proxy as a bookmarklet. It's two clicks: 1 to hit the bookmarklet, another to hit login on my autofilled secure sign on page.

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by tasogare on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:25AM (#26383377)

My university does (a top national one) and it’s still less reliable and UX friendly than SciHub.

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by ta988 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:41PM (#26381850)

Thankfully some universities have a decently working ezproxy config but still. Then you hit the paywall, or the non working website from the crappy publisher that thinks people want to read pdfs as their enhanced-pdf and require two other clicks to get a real pdf, during that time the 5 (not kidding look at what those pages load!) trackers are loading...

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by asdff on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:18AM (#26382497)

In my experience at least those are edge cases from some super dodgey journals. All the major publishers and journals worth reading work fine.

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Re:UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited neg... by ta988 on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:34AM (#26385491)

I'm talking about a major publisher here, Wiley $1.7bn revenue...

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