A Mastodon post of someone complaining about the inaccessibility of research papers
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I’ve heard of a lot of scientists using the dark web just to access research articles “illegally” lol

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If you mean Sci-hub, then yeah that's completely normal. I've used Sci-hub to access my own article once when I had lost access to the published version.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'd rather use sci-hub than institutional access when the article is available. Fuck publishers.

    Really hope someone comes up, recognizes how much public research money is wasted on this bullshit and sets up a public publisher directly funded by research funds which allows people to publish and read freely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's also insanely efficient to post the link in the search and immediately have the paper.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Yes, much better than the alternative system. Look, I found a cool article about a topic. Let's open it on the publisher website. Oh I need access for this, let's login. After login I still have no access and get redirected to institutional login. Get back to publisher, now I have institutional credentials, but need to login again. Finally done!

    Your institution does not have access to this paper.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    "the dark web" is police fascist fearmongering for tech that lets people access the internet from censored countries

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    The dark web is a specific section of the *deep web that can be accessed only using specific software configurations or authorizations

    The name make sense because it's in fact hidden, dark and makes quite a bit of sense, the problem is that dark things do make people quite a bit scared and that was then weaponized

    And i say that because i don't want to go against whatever you said but to expand on the (in my opinion, too) simplistic view you shared

    *the deep web is that huge chunk of the internet that is not indexed by any search engine

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    there are onion search engines and directories, and "the dark web" refers to ANY onion site

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    I am sure i need to use the TOR network to use an onion search engine

    Edit: apparently what i said is wrong

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