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Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.

Publisher website ( #Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"

#Scihub website: here you go, read this PDF for free and with no hassle whatsoever

#AcademicChatter

Edit: I wasn't sure that it was really paying "millions per year" so I looked it up. Couldn't find current numbers but I found this list from 10y ago saying most UK unis pay an average of ~£800 000 per year just for Elsevier journals:
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/

Screenshot of the top of the table in the linked text that shows the annual cost that several UK universities paid Elsevier per year (TVA not shown so you can add 20% to that)
Costs vary from £200 000 (Exeter) to £ 1.3 million (Imperial College London) in this screenshot — Screenshot of the top of the table in the linked text that shows the annual cost that several UK universities paid Elsevier per year (TVA not shown so you can add 20% to that) Costs vary from £200 000 (Exeter) to £ 1.3 million (Imperial College London) in this screenshot

El Duvelle

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social · 3 weeks ago

Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.

Publisher website ( #Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"

#Scihub website: here you go, read this PDF for free and with no hassle whatsoever

#AcademicChatter

Lambert Heller boosted

v_i_o_l_a

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social · 3 weeks ago

"Austausch zum Thema #Schattenbibliotheken" – Einladung von Anna Schwerdtel, Nina Gerlach, @benkaden und @Lambo: https://libreas.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/einladung-austausch-zum-thema-schattenbibliotheken/ #SciHub #LibGen #etal

v_i_o_l_a

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social · 3 weeks ago

Gabriele Svelto

@gabrielesvelto@mas.to · 3 months ago

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

Else, Someone

@nobody@mastodon.acm.org replied · 3 months ago

annas-archive website citing:

“The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”

— Thomas Jefferson, 1791 — annas-archive website citing: “The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Björn Brembs boosted

Tarnkappe.info

@tarnkappeinfo@social.tchncs.de · 5 months ago

📬 Sci-Hub goes Crypto: Mit Memecoin gegen Elsevier & Co.
#EBooks #Krypto #AlexandraElbakyan #Blockchain #OpenScience #SciHub #SCIToken #Tokenomics https://sc.tarnkappe.info/f0282e

Tarnkappe.info

@tarnkappeinfo@social.tchncs.de · 5 months ago

📬 Sci-Hub goes Crypto: Mit Memecoin gegen Elsevier & Co.
#EBooks #Krypto #AlexandraElbakyan #Blockchain #OpenScience #SciHub #SCIToken #Tokenomics https://sc.tarnkappe.info/f0282e

maxlath

@maxlath@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

PSA for #Zotero users:

If you were using the "Zotero Scihub" addon, note that it was or will be disabled when you update to Zotero 7.

The replacement seems to be "SciPDF For Zotero" https://github.com/syt2/zotero-scipdf

#scihub

Danny Garside

@da5nsy@social.coop · 11 months ago

@devSJR Can you say more about what you like about #researchgate that you'd want in a new fediverse-compatible system? I think I'm struggling to understand because I see #researchgate as just a capitalist version of #scihub (just a big internet pile of PDFs) but I suspect I'm missing something since I'm not a frequent user