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Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive

posted by martyb on Sunday August 15 2021, @05:13PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive

Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform. For safety reasons, donations can only be made in cryptocurrencies but the pledges include a drive to open source the project and the introduction of artificial intelligence to discover new hypotheses.

[...] A new campaign launched by Elbakyan on Saturday hopes to encourage people to contribute to the site's future, promising "dramatic improvements" over the next few years in return.

In addition to offering enhanced search features and a mobile app, Sci-Hub is pledging developments that include the open sourcing of the project. Also of interest is the pledge to introduce an artificial intelligence component that should make better use of the masses of knowledge hosted by Sci-Hub.

"Sci-Hub engine will [be] powered by artificial intelligence. Neural Networks will read scientific texts, extract ideas and make inferences and discover new hypotheses," Elbakyan reveals.

The overall goal of the next few years is to boost content availability too, expanding from hosting "the majority of research articles" available today to include "any scientific document ever published."

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15 2021, @10:31PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15 2021, @10:31PM (#1167319)

    They can't afford to shut Sci-Hub down now. Too many of the articles published in the legal "for profit" journals now explicitly reference sci-hub papers in their citations.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @04:25AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @04:25AM (#1167393)

    It's might be funny, but it's also true.
    https://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-warn-students-not-to-use-sci-hub-publishers-promote-it-210322/ [torrentfreak.com]

    On the contrary, it’s mostly scientists who add Sci-Hub DOI links to their publications, to make it easy for readers to access the articles they reference. A quick Google Scholar search [google.com] reveals how prevalent this is.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday August 16 2021, @11:50AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday August 16 2021, @11:50AM (#1167456) Homepage
      If that's true, then it shows Sci-Hub isn't working particularly well. Citations should be by *name*, not *location*. If Sci-Hub was doing a good job, it would be trivially mapping document names onto (unofficial secondary) locations. Heck, that could be implemented as one database table with URN as a key and URL as a field.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @12:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @12:50PM (#1167467)

        That might be true, but it's hardly Sci-Hub's fault if authors cite a Sci-Hub location rather than a document name.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @01:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 16 2021, @01:06PM (#1167472)

      Ok, I can't make that google scholar link work. I think rehash is stripping the parameters from it. If you go to the torrentfreak page it is about in the middle, just above a screenshot that shows the results. It works from there.