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Comment by sudhirj | Hacker News Reader

Is this even possible under the licensing agreements of journals? Why isn't every country already doing this?

Maybe because the country sees the absurdity in paying for the research and then paying again to read the results.

Why not create a new journal that would be free for all? If the subscription journals provide no value I don't see the problem.

There's plenty of such journals out there (commonly referred to as open access journals).

But popular subscription journals are seen as crown jewels for researchers and readers are unwilling to pay ridiculous amounts of money to read a paper or two, so sci-hub remains extremely popular.

As a scientist, it is of my opinion that this is rather absurd. Research should be viewed as being for the betterment of humanity and furthering our knowledge, not personal prestige

Unfortunately ones career is based on personal prestige in this field.

As a former scientist, the depths of academia I have visited and what I have seen had better not reach the light of day.

But would it be indexed by Scopus, which is owned by Elsevier? Some research grants might require researcher's past findings to be indexed in Scopus.

They already are, effectively, through publicly-funded universities.

I'm guessing they will be able to define their own license if the order is big enough. If not, I think a new National Library can be established and every citizen is automatically a member?

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