Sci-Hub, I'm ashamed that I didn't recognize you until now. When I saw it yesterday, I thought it was just an ordinary MeMe
Maybe I had been away from school for too long. When I realized this, I decided to spare no effort to support him.
Sci Hub allows people to access the latest papers for free, promoting the progress of human society. Support Sci-Hub, support fairness and justice, support knowledge belonging to all mankind, and support human progress.
1 Let’s first talk about a major problem in current academic research
We all know that the most cutting-edge scientific achievements are published in journals, such as Science Nature. So, all the technologies that change the world originate from here, which is the cradle of human society.
But what you don’t know is that these are the crystallization of human wisdom, and ordinary people have to pay a very high price to obtain them.
These funds are not paid to the authors, and the authors will not receive a penny. Instead, all of them are earned by the journals and related stakeholders.
Is this reasonable? This is not reasonable. But after this pattern is formed, there is no way around it. Because researchers need to publish journal impact factors, citation counts, etc. to demonstrate their research level. If you are like a Nobel Prize winner, you naturally don't need these. But most people apply for research funding, change jobs, communicate with peers, etc. So their research results can only be published in these places.
The current situation is that research institutions and universities will purchase them in a unified manner. However, these still have big problems. For example, when I was doing my doctoral studies, some papers were not purchased by the school and needed the help of my classmates in the United States to download them.
In those countries and regions with limited funding, the conditions for scientific research are even more difficult.
In the world of science, this is not scientific at all. These fruits of human knowledge should belong to all mankind, not be used as a tool for certain interest groups to make money.
Second, let’s talk about Sci-Hub
Simply put, Sci-Hub provides these scientific research papers for free. The papers can be obtained through various means and everyone can download them freely.
Naturally, he was sued by various parties. The founder was accused by powerful people in many ways. You can look at Wikipedia's records yourself, and there are tens of millions of dollars in compensation being demanded everywhere.
My own experience is that when I wrote an article, I started to use sci hub frequently. But it was often blocked, so they left a mirror guide website. At that time, I thought, how can such a good website be like a porn website, and have to change its location every once in a while? It's sad, sad.
After reading this, you should be able to understand the great significance of sci hub.
Finally, I would like to give you a few words of advice . I suggest you divide it into two parts. One part is what you want to participate in as a meme. It has a price, which may rise or fall, or even return to zero.
As for the other part, it’s up to each person to decide how much he or she wants to spend, but it’s just to support Sci-Hub, to support fairness and justice, to support the idea that knowledge belongs to all mankind, and to support the progress of mankind.
