Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case

Re:Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen i... by universa1 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:23AM (#29368025)

Many/Some(??) journals now allow to publish a pre-print to arxiv and alike and do not count that as previous publication... So you don't get the paper in the "journal"-format style, but the content is the same.

So you can still continue to publish in journal, while the research is also still freely available. Usually you are also allowed to share the published article via email, just not put it publicly available on your website...

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Re:Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen i... by mNovak on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:31PM (#29372673)

I think the arxiv / pre-print workaround could have so much more potential if more researchers were motivated/educated on it. I'd love to see an effort to simply email the top 10k authors to request preprint copies to be hosted. If all they have to do is send a pdf, I think most would be happy to do it.

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