Sci-Net: A new social network platform to request and share research articles
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-05-16
Summary:
"Sci-Hub was never designed to accept uploads from users. From the very beginning, it was implemented as an autonomous system that scans and downloads research papers from various universities ‐ without human in the loop. This automatic method turned out to be quite effective, and Sci-Hub was able to reach coverage > 90% in its best days. However, even then some paper remained unreachable.
Now there exists a platform where users can request unavailable papers, and upload them: sci-net.xyz..."