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167 points fprog | 8 comments | 19 Apr 25 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.837s | source | bottom
1. randomNumber7 ◴[21 Apr 25 10:36 UTC] No.43750318[source]▶
> For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries

Are there scientists that don't know libgen or scihub?

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2. ◴[21 Apr 25 11:05 UTC] No.43750529[source]▶
3. mobeets ◴[21 Apr 25 11:21 UTC] No.43750649[source]▶
Scihub hasn’t been updated since 2020! But anyway arxiv has a lot of important features specifically for academic papers (eg quality control, categories, browsing, issuing dois, etc)
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4. segmondy ◴[21 Apr 25 13:53 UTC] No.43752045[source]▶
libgen has been getting taken down especially after it came out that "AI companies" downloaded the entire archive for their training. Is it even still up? Furthermore, you can go go arXiv and see papers that got released yesterday or today. You can't find those on libgen or scihub.
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5. boramalper ◴[21 Apr 25 14:22 UTC] No.43752340[source]▶
Do you know the latest on that? Are they still holding their breaths over that court case in India?
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6. randomNumber7 ◴[21 Apr 25 21:00 UTC] No.43756411[source]▶
It is still up, but DNS blocked in some countries. arXiv papers are not published in journals yet. Annas archive has also newer papers than scihub.
7. mobeets ◴[22 Apr 25 19:35 UTC] No.43765505{3}[source]▶
I have no idea (but wish I knew). I’m embarrassed to admit it took me years to even notice that it wasn’t being updated anymore
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8. boramalper ◴[24 Apr 25 10:05 UTC] No.43780927{4}[source]▶
Okay, I found out that on Reddit [0] that you can follow for updates on the website of High Court of Delhi [1] (though you may need a VPN as it seems to be geo-blocked).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/1j5rmus/2192025_hig...

[1] https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/court/dhc_case_status_list_new...