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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 8 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.224s | source | bottom
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teruakohatu ◴[18 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42176959[source]▶
The best thing, by a long way, that Google Scholar has achieved is denying Elsevier & co a monopoly on academic search.

In most universities here in New Zealand, articles have to be published in a journal indexed by Elsevier's Scopus. Not in a Scopus-indexed journal, it does not count anymore than a reddit comment. This gives Elsevier tremendous power. But in CS/ML/AI most academics and students turn to Google Scholar first when doing searches.

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freefaler ◴[18 Nov 24 21:07 UTC] No.42177049[source]▶
or turn to sci-hub and annas-arhive :)
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1. thrdbndndn ◴[19 Nov 24 03:20 UTC] No.42179815[source]▶
I'm a proud user of sci-hub but when I was still in academics, I have never used it. My school has access to all the journals I ever needed, plus more old non-digitized ones I can borrow from library (including interlibrary access).
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2. thrw42A8N ◴[19 Nov 24 06:57 UTC] No.42180692[source]▶
My school has no such thing and yet requires me to find and cite research.
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3. consf ◴[19 Nov 24 07:16 UTC] No.42180777[source]▶
For those outside such institutions, tools like Sci-Hub often become a lifeline (as it was for me)
4. consf ◴[19 Nov 24 07:17 UTC] No.42180781[source]▶
I think access to research shouldn't be a luxury or dependent on where you study
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5. slashtab ◴[19 Nov 24 13:07 UTC] No.42182991{3}[source]▶
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz.
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6. ryzvonusef ◴[19 Nov 24 13:51 UTC] No.42183406[source]▶
It depends on the discipline, also the mode of learning (I'm distance learning so no physical library access).

My uni (Northampton) has access to a LOT of journals... but has a blindspot in management, specifically accountancy focus journals; am doing my lit review for my MSc dissertation and the number of times I hit a dead end is frustrating.

Sci-hub and Annas-Archive are also not interested in that segment, so double whammy.

But surprisingly Archive.org was able to help me out a bit, so thanks for that.

7. Suppafly ◴[19 Nov 24 16:59 UTC] No.42185587[source]▶
>My school has access to all the journals I ever needed

I miss being on a university network and having paywalled journals and such just magically load.

8. Melatonic ◴[19 Nov 24 17:23 UTC] No.42185921{4}[source]▶
The legend