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Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers
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A group of Redditors have come together in a bid to download over 85 million scientific papers from the Sci-Hub website and make them available as an "un-censorable" open-source library.
Over the last decade or so, Sci-Hub has been giving free access to a huge database of scientific papers that would otherwise be locked behind a paywall. The website has been the target of multiple lawsuits, as well as an investigation from the United States Department of Justice.
In a May 13 post, moderators of the r/DataHoarder subreddit stated, "It's time we sent Elsevier and the USDOJ a clearer message about the fate of Sci-Hub and open science. We are the library, we do not get silenced, we do not shut down our computers, and we are many."
Sci-Hub is home to over 85 million papers, totaling 77 terabytes of data. The group of Redditors calls their work a "rescue mission for Open Science."
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