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..."

Link:

https://sci-hub.se/sci-net

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.sci-hub oa.crowd oa.copyright oa.cryptocurrency oa.guerrilla oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

05/16/2025, 10:26

Date published:

05/16/2025, 06:26