Hacker News with Generative AI: Open Access

Sci-Net (sci-hub.se)
I regularly receive requests from Sci-Hub users to help them download some paper that cannot be opened through Sci-Hub. The number of such requests increased in the past two years, since Sci-Hub database updates were paused. The opposite also happens: users ask whether they can upload to Sci-Hub some paper that they have bought or downloaded via university subscription.

Science, Research, Open Access, Data Sharing, Piracy

276 points by greyface- 22 days ago | 120 comments

Inside ArXiv (wired.com)
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather.

Science, Research, Open Access, Publishing

167 points by fprog 49 days ago | 29 comments

CLP Calculus Textbooks (math.ubc.ca)
Free PDF and web-based calculus textbooks and problem books.

Mathematics, Education, Textbooks, Open Access

22 points by ibobev 56 days ago | 7 comments

AI bots are destroying Open Access (blogspot.com)
There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending against this broad-based attack are doing everything they can to preserve their outlets while trying to remain true to the mission of providing the digital lifeblood of science and culture to the world.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Access, Libraries, Non-profit Organizations, Scholarly Publishing

99 points by dhacks 74 days ago | 49 comments

"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI (citationneeded.news)
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

Generative AI, Open Access, Research, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence

126 points by thinkingemote 83 days ago | 47 comments

San Francisco unveils marble bust of Aaron Swartz (sfstandard.com)
Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as an open-access hero.

San Francisco, Statues, Aaron Swartz, Open Access, Internet Archive

29 points by leotravis10 119 days ago | 2 comments

The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto [Aaron Swartz, 2008] (archive.org)

Open Access, Activism, Digital Rights

4 points by bbor 119 days ago | 1 comments

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes (retractionwatch.com)
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.”

Science, Publishing, Academia, Open Access

106 points by panic 162 days ago | 31 comments

Where Open Access Has Failed to Reform Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law Might (techdirt.com)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, Antitrust Law

5 points by type0 219 days ago | 0 comments

Open-Access AI: Lessons from Open-Source Software (lawfaremedia.org)
Open-weight AI models aren’t the panacea for AI democratization, innovation, and accountability that their evangelists claim them to be.

Open-Source Software, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Open Access

6 points by ano-ther 224 days ago | 0 comments

Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) (cr.yp.to)
IEEE is refusing to accept public-domain papers except from government authors.

Academic Publishing, Open Access, Copyright

239 points by stargrave 228 days ago | 92 comments

Shodhganga: A Reservoir of Indian Theses (ac.in:8443)
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

India, Research, Academia, Theses, Open Access

5 points by thunderbong 241 days ago | 0 comments

FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records (fred.org.nz)
FRED is a computer database for the New Zealand Fossil Record File (FRF) which is a recording scheme for fossil localities in NZ and nearby regions.

Databases, Paleontology, New Zealand, Open Access, Crowdsourcing

113 points by teleforce 256 days ago | 9 comments

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

Open Access, Academic Publishing, MIT, Elsevier

587 points by nabla9 291 days ago | 220 comments

MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (pluralistic.net)

Libraries, Elsevier, Open Access

9 points by samizdis 295 days ago | 0 comments

OECD provides unrestricted access to all content (oecd-ilibrary.org)

Open Access, OECD, Research, Data, Public Policy

6 points by ynac 312 days ago | 5 comments

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we're determined to change that (theguardian.com)