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== Sci-Hub == | == Sci-Hub == | ||
[[File:SciHub Liberating Scientific Information.png|alt=SciHub Liberating Scientific Information|thumb| | [[File:SciHub Liberating Scientific Information.png|alt=SciHub Liberating Scientific Information|thumb|Countries that use Sci-Hub the most.]] | ||
A huge amount of science is done every year in universities and laboratories around the world scientists unlike designers do not hide their secrets behind closed doors as they welcome criticism in the form of peer review. As such scientific papers are published behind a public paywall and are only free to university boffins. The issue with this is that the majority of scientists in the world live outside of the Western university structure and cannot access this raw data as it is placed behind a corporate paywalls maintained by corporates such as: | A huge amount of science is done every year in universities and laboratories around the world scientists unlike designers do not hide their secrets behind closed doors as they welcome criticism in the form of peer review. As such scientific papers are published behind a public paywall and are only free to university boffins. The issue with this is that the majority of scientists in the world live outside of the Western university structure and cannot access this raw data as it is placed behind a corporate paywalls maintained by corporates such as: | ||
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* Oxford University Press | * Oxford University Press | ||
* Routledge. Sage Publications | * Routledge. Sage Publications | ||
* University of Chicago Press In short | * University of Chicago Press In short | ||
To get the most accurate view of a hazy subject the best way is to get as many data point as possible however the system is set up to conversely punish whoever wants to acheive this by associating a cost to every extra paper which is downloaded. A clever computer scientist named Aaron Schwartz (a co creator of Reddit) figured this out in 2011, he learnt for the world to emerge from a ''fake news dystopia'' barriers to access to as many data points as possible was imperative. As such he downloaded as many papers from MIT and JSTOR as possible and then uploaded it to the web for any scientist to access. This one event in history just in the medical sciences has saved countless lives as doctors from China and India for the first time could access this raw knowledge, free of charge. | |||
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