Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the 'Pirate Bay of Science'

For 10 years, Sci-Hub, the "Pirate Bay of Science" has hosted scientific papers free for anyone who wanted them. But it hasn't uploaded anything new since December 2020 and is facing prosecution in America. Now, determined activist archivists are working to make a decentralized backup of the website that can never be erased from the internet. From a report: Sci-Hub hosts 85 million articles and the Reddit community at /r/datahoarder wants to make sure they're free and available for everyone forever by decentralizing it because of recent legal challenges for the site, which was sued by science publishing giant Elsevier and owes it millions. "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," said a post on the /r/datahoarder subreddit.

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