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Re:Sci-Hub statistics and database by Hendrikto on Saturday February 12, 2022 @02:51PM (#30315712)
> why are our scientists made to rely on elsevier et al to sift through the junk and find for them the perfect paper instead of doing it themselves?

Scientists do do that themselves. That‘s why it is called peer review. Journals take scientists work for free, they just pre-select papers, but don‘t do the review.

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Re:Sci-Hub statistics and database by 2Gkashmiri on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:46AM (#30321358)
are you saying you rely on "pre-selection" of the journals and for that the demand exorbitant prices? why dont you rely on peer-review data on scihub itself?

is the pre-selection such an important thing that these companies necessarily have to remain in business?

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