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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Xi achieved what Aaron Swartz tried to do. Thank you xi-god-emperor

Now if I just figure out how to wire my brain to learn Chinese......

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did china just nudge the socialism button

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its a big giant clock like the doomsday clock but instead its a do communism clock and it just moved half a minute closer to midnite.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Joe Biden draw a big giant clock

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

The table on which the button sits was bumped accidentally

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

official state backed scihub

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Think you still will be using scihub. Unless I am missing something (or only correct inside China or need an account) it seems like "just another" aggregator (which is useful, don't get me wrong) and doesn't really make anything available that wasn't already open access. Although being able to focus on some Chinese output, like thesis, is nice and things like that might get missed by other services (idk)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I was pleasantly surprised that the creator of scihub is this weird Stalinist graduate student lol

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Um... sorry, but have you considered that China no freedom great firewell dictator xi jinping literally 1984? smuglord

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I made a type on great firewall but whatever we can have a firewell too I guess. as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Damned godless communists.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, is this available outside China today too?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was a bit slow to load for me, but it appears to be available at pubscholar.cn.

There doesn't seem to be an option to change the interface into natural English, but a page translator would do just fine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Just poking around the site, it seems to be analogous to PubMed (minus the medical focus), serving as a searchable database for papers, hosting abstracts and metadata for those papers, and linking to journals for the full text versions (sometimes hosting the papers directly if they are open access). I hope we get some more in-depth coverage in English soon (the Sixth Tone article the OP's image is from isn't very detailed); one of the things I'm wondering is if the main purpose is to serve as a PubMed-like search engine/aggregator to make it easy to find things (still admirable if that wasn't possible for some of the Chinese papers or if those services weren't easily accessible for those in China) or if it aims to become a primary host for papers going forward. The article mentions that the only comparable service was provided by CNKI in extortionate fashion, but it's still not clear to me whether CNKI operated as a mere paywall to its search database (to which PubScholar provides an immediate free alternative) or if it also served as a paywall to the papers themselves (and if so, does PubScholar now provide free access to some of those papers?).

Whatever the case, this seems to be a worthy endeavor and I look forward to hearing about how it continues to develop!

Oh, also PSA for those using uBlock Origin: don't know if it's just my particular blocklists or what, but the main navigation section at the top of the page (everything between the header and the four featured articles in this screenshot) is completely absent for me with blocking enabled. Weirdly, when I click on the extension it doesn't actually report that anything has been blocked, so it must be the cosmetic filters at play.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's all Joever.

The west is Bidone.

xi-lib-tears biden-forgor

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

state sponsored sci-hub

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can only find English language coverage of this on xinhua and sixthtone.

CNKI, known as Zhiwang in China and established in 1999 with backing from Tsinghua University, has faced regulatory challenges since last December.

The platform was fined 87.6 million yuan ($11.97 million) by Chinese regulators for “abusing its market dominance,” representing 5% of its 2021 domestic revenue. And last month, following an extensive yearlong investigation, the database was penalized again [for USD 6.8 million] for illegally collecting users’ personal information.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

VPN jump in, 20 minute adventure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

中国已经堕落

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