It's whack-a-mole time again children!<p>Lots of money and time spent on what will, in the end, amount to a whole lot of nothing as, those who REALLY do want to access Sci-hub, will find a way round this.
Anyone who was waiting for the revolution, now is the time.<p>No more bullsh*t. No more compromise. The sun does not revolve around the earth, and the overwhelming evidence shows the ideal duration for patents and copyright is zero.<p>#EndImaginaryProperty #LiberateIdeas #AbolishCopyrights #AbolishPatents #BringBackNapster
When will they ever learn? Forcing ISPs to block websites will only antagonize the scholars more, who can anyway access the website with or without a ban. They'll do nothing to harm Sci-hub, in fact it'll make it even more popular.<p>Elsevier also did this in India - it pissed me off so much I shifted towards downloading papers from Sci-Hub even when I have a university subscription.
I have great access through my university library system.<p>But Sci-Hub and LibGen have radically accelerated my ability to do research.<p>It can be infuriating when I can't find a book or article that I need. But 9/10 that happens within the digital library system not scihub/LibGen.
> At the time of writing, TalkTalk’s rival ISPs including Virgin Media, BT, Sky, EE and O2 are not reporting the existence of a blocking order but it seems extremely unlikely that they won’t be required to act against Sci-Hub under the same order.<p>sci-hub.se is still accessible to me on EE and Virgin Media.<p>Edit: s/scihub/sci-hub/
I wish scientists would start growing a spine and <i>stop citing</i> Elsevier journals. That's the only thing that will break the vicious cycle of everybody publishing there because it gets a lot of citations, despite nobody actually <i>reading</i> in the journal. Put up a link to the pdf on the authors home page as reference, if it is essential to the paper, or leave it out completely if it isn't.
I'd love to see a pre-print database shared between all the major federal funding agencies which required any publications that go behind pay walls to share a corresponding pre-print that's publicly accessible for any paywalled publications. Let state and other private entities opt into joining the share repository.<p>I get it. Editing and reviewing costs money for journals. That's fine, let them monetize their improved versions but let the tax payers decide if they care to pay for those services or not as opposed to digging around for a researchers public preprint if they maintain one or being forced to dig through Sci-Hub and the like.<p>arXiv sort of fills this role and is growing in popularity but it's not mandated, centralized for all domains,, or promoted by the federal government which would push such an effort to the critical mass needed for larger adoption.