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Re:Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articl... by nicoburns on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:44AM (#28423923)
What we really need is an index of these torrents by DOI, and then ultimately by journal and issue. Are you aware of any work to make this happen?
Re:Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articl... by sixtyfourbits on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:04AM (#28424863)
The only one I'm aware of currently is https://github.com/sci-hub-p2p/sci-hub-p2p. Library genesis also hosts database dumps at https://libgen.rs/dbdumps/.

There's really a need though for more developers to get involved with building tools for more easily searching and working with the collection, ideally with a nice UI and integration with things like crossref. This is a massively valuable data set and it would be great to see what people can come up with. Lots of awesome potential for data mining too.

If it weren't for the legal issues (publishers using copyright law to restrict access to literature they got for free since they never pay authors for their work), there's no shortage of projects that could utilize this data and be enormously beneficial for the scientific community and humanity in general. Unfortunately such work can only be done in the shadows right now, which greatly limits the number of people/institutions likely to do so.

Re:Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articl... by Ericson2314 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#28425252)
Isn't libgen already distributed via IPFS too?
Re:Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articl... by commoner on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:03PM (#28426310)
Yes, LibGen is mirrored on IPFS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246

Re:Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articl... by moyix on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:41PM (#28425613)
I believe there is a database dump available with this information:

http://libgen.rs/dbdumps/scimag.sql.gz