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Dr. jonny phd

Academics: stop being coy about #SciHub and start treating it like basic research infrastructure. If you dont include it in your syllabus already as a normal way to access research, you should start. No more winks and nods, just link directly to it and accept no criticism for doing so from the researchers that necessitate its continued existence by their publishing practices

mastodon.social/@eff/111075817

18 Sep 2023 at 4:01 | Open on neuromatch.social
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Dr. jonny phd

Here's one way of including sci-hub links in your bibliography if you use Jekyll-scholar. Dont wait for the publishers to catch up, make information liberation essential to how you share your work

github.com/sneakers-the-rat/su
18 Sep 2023 at 4:07 | Open on neuromatch.social
Dr. jonny phd

Piracy is a just reaction to an unjust informational system

18 Sep 2023 at 4:10 | Open on neuromatch.social
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Martin Tilo Schmitz

@Fayedray @jonny sea faring was just the architecture of the information and value exchange infrastructure of the time / development stage of civilization.

There was also the story of a medieval french light-fire "morse" network that was "hacked"/hijacked by industrious merchants that encoded secret messages about price changes in local "stock exchanges" to game the markets.

And robberies along the silk route...

18 Sep 2023 at 8:42 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Lightning Bjornsson
@MartinTilo @Fayedray @jonny It was actually a semaphore system (large mechanical arms visible at a distance).
18 Sep 2023 at 19:46 | Open on bv.umbrellix.org
J

@jonny re: "piracy"... what can't be owned by being purchased can't be stolen by being copied.

18 Sep 2023 at 4:15 | Open on jaesharp.social
Scott 🏴

@jonny the theft of non-scarce resources is a good and natural reaction to the hoarding of those resources, as the hoarding is inherently immoral and unnecessary for resources that are not scarce.

18 Sep 2023 at 6:53 | Open on tams.tech
gabriel

@jonny I thought it was dormant, as in not being updated anymore.

18 Sep 2023 at 4:45 | Open on col.social
Dr. jonny phd

@gabriel
Yes, for now, but still important for works <2021 and if it goes dormant permanently following lawsuit we should view it as an obligation to find a replacement.

18 Sep 2023 at 4:46 | Open on neuromatch.social
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@jonny @gabriel Equally, I think it is an obligation that all researchers refuse to do unpaid reviewing work. Organized collective action could bring the abusive publishing industry to its knees in fairly short order. But I've been saying this for 30 years. The Stockholm syndrome runs deep.

18 Sep 2023 at 9:12 | Open on mastodon.social
Kate Nyhan

@jonny
Would you say that the category "researchers that necessitate its continued existence by their publishing practices" includes
- people who publish paywalled papers in journals that don't allow green OA, on the reasoning that everyone can just use SciHub to read them
- people who published in paywalled journals that allow self-archiving, but don't bother to do it

18 Sep 2023 at 14:41 | Open on social.esmarconf.org
Kate Nyhan

@jonny I mean, I think you're right that SciHub should be discussed, and I include it in all my "how you can keep accessing lit to practice evidence-based public health post graduation" presentations - but I've seen some authors use Scihub's existence as justification for deciding not to care about the practices of their favorite journals

18 Sep 2023 at 14:44 | Open on social.esmarconf.org
Dr. jonny phd

@kdnyhan
Well in addition to that being a terribly cynical way to live your life, its also strictly wrong bc scihub has been in stasis w no new uploads since 2021 as part of a lawsuit thats now sort of complicated to explain.

18 Sep 2023 at 15:35 | Open on neuromatch.social
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny talking of which, I just released @scihub , a bot that posts the latest working domains for #SciHub

hachyderm.io/@j3j5/11108732599

18 Sep 2023 at 17:30 | Open on hachyderm.io
Dr. jonny phd

@j3j5
@scihub
Huh, wonder who runs those mirrors, since they're not on the list??
sci-hub.se/mirrors

18 Sep 2023 at 17:41 | Open on neuromatch.social
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny oh, curious, honestly I followed a bot back in :birdsite: that posted the domains from the WordPress blog, and I always use it to access it, but I didn't realize they weren't "official"

18 Sep 2023 at 17:44 | Open on hachyderm.io
Dr. jonny phd

@j3j5
Yeah not as far as I can tell. The mirrors on that site also seem to embed some mystery JavaScript payload from Baidu (that I can't actually get to load) so probably good to stick to the official mirrors. But a bot that checks for outages/changes in those would b good, since they probs will lose the .se one a few more times.

You could do a pretty low-fi scrape of it because they embed the list of mirrors as a series of link rel="alternate" in the header

@j3j5
Yeah not as far as I can tell. The mirrors on that site also seem to embed some mystery JavaScript payload from Baidu (that I can't actually get to load) so probably good to stick to the official mirrors. But a bot that checks for outages/changes in those would b good, since they probs will lose the .se one a few more times.

18 Sep 2023 at 18:05 | Open on neuromatch.social
Dr. jonny phd

@j3j5
Counterfeit mirrors, as olde as digital piracy itself

18 Sep 2023 at 18:06 | Open on neuromatch.social
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny I've switched to the "official" mirrors, sadly, I can't check for availability because at least one of them (sci-hub.st) has some sort of DDoS protection on that returns 403 when I do a HEAD/GET with my script.

bots.uy/p/scihub/9451178117890

18 Sep 2023 at 19:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny also, the alternate links on the headers seem to be used for the localized pages, not for the mirrors. The mirrors page is still easy to scrape (there's a nice "mirrors" id on the list).

18 Sep 2023 at 19:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
Tobin Baker

@jonny Sadly, if the new Cold War ever ends, sci-hub will probably cease to exist.

18 Sep 2023 at 18:43 | Open on discuss.systems
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