The best academic paper archives, according to hackers
6 academic paper archives recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
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- arXivPeople recommend it as the free, fast place to read and publish preprints, often ahead of journal versions, with timestamps and stable IDs. Critics note that anyone can post almost anything with little content review.83recommend
- Sci-HubWidely recommended free archive of research papers, including older ones and DOI lookups. Critics say it has not added new papers in years.17recommend
- ZenodoFree research repository that issues DOIs and preserves papers long term; critics note uploads that hang and metadata that can be changed.9recommend
- ACM Digital LibraryPeople recommend its trusted computer science papers and its move to open access. Critics say premium features and paywalled search remain, and that 'open access' is overstated.9recommend
- JSTORPeople recommend JSTOR as a non-profit archive of old journal articles that are hard to reach elsewhere; critics say much research stays behind paywalls.7recommend
- HAL (hal.science)Free open archive for research papers, used especially in mathematics and well integrated with arXiv; critics say it is second-tier to arXiv and dredge is a problem.7recommend