Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem
by liberalgeneral on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:58AM
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I think Sci-Hub is the opposite since 1 DOI = 1 PDF in its canonical form (straight from the publisher) so neither duplication nor low-quality is the case.
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Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem
by dredmorbius on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:50PM
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It does depend on when the work was published. Pre-digital works scanned in without OCR can be larger in size. That's typically works from the 1980s and before.
Given the explosion of scientific publishing, that's likely a small fraction of the archive by work though it may be significant in terms of storage.