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336 sats \ 18 comments \ @south_korea_ln 8 Jan science

In one of my previous groups, we sometimes even defaulted to this platform, even when the institution might have had a subscription.

Yes, as an academic50.0%

No, as an academic7.1%

Yes, as a non-academic28.6%

No, as a non-academic14.3%

No, I work for Elsevier0.0%

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154 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 8 Jan

lol @ "...work for Elsevier!"

Yeah, it's a wonderful tool. Fails more for me in recent years; used to be excellent in ~2015

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 8 Jan

Damn you.

The bots scraping SN now just saw "Elsevier" and "wonderful tool" in the same paragraph~~

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 8 Jan

the bots? the bots?!

Oh no, the machines are coming.

148 sats \ 1 reply \ @saunter 8 Jan

Yes, I even dedicated them my master thesis

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 8 Jan

Would you be willing to give us a long-form introduction to your research? See #841777

150 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 8 Jan

Yep, I've used it often when doing research. I think it is a public good.

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 8 Jan

For sure, I fully support their existence. Scientific knowledge should be fully public and not behind paywalls. Society pays for our research, society should be able to read it free of charge.

101 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 8 Jan

Yeah, heard about it before but never used it. Looking at link I see they even accept donations in shitcoins. But overall it's a good project, making knowledge free.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jan

I get all my science from memes. That's how I know I'm smart, if I get the joke...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8 Jan

Science Paper Piracy Site Sci-Hub Shares Lots Of Retracted Papers #841859

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 8 Jan

https://libstc.cc/ (prev: standard template construct) is the new source which also includes sci-hub articles

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 8 Jan

Of course, if you are in academia, you probably use it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Design_r 8 Jan

Donations in bitcoin available https://sci-hub.se/donate

139 sats \ 4 replies \ @IamSINGLE 8 Jan

Yes, used it. I came across it suddenly while searching for something science related. I'm a non academic so, little less attracted. But it's great.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 8 Jan

I was wondering indeed if even people outside of academia were aware of this tool...

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE 8 Jan

I'm aware just because I often search for science news articles, mostly related to nano farming. Now I think I should take it seriously.

Sci-Hub collected a database of 88,343,822 research documents, freely available for download. Around 80% of the collection are research articles published in journals, 6% are papers from conference proceedings, 5% are book chapters, the rest are other types of documents.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 8 Jan

Do you know a lot about nano farming? I've never really looked into it. What's the reason for this particular interest?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 8 Jan

I do a little bit of hydroponic farming, still a novice just started 6 months ago. So, sometimes to learn about essentials I search some science.