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This was presented to the SLA2016 conference in Philadelphia on 12 June. ABSTRACT: Libraries are moving from curators of bought content to providing access to…
The controversies surrounding Sci-Hub touch on many hot-button topics in librarianship. This primer lays out multiple perspectives on the issues.
Generally, things are better if you put open* in front of them.
Plum Analytics Peeks into the Sci-Hub Top 100 Downloads By now I think everyone involved in performing research, publishing research, communicating research, and more is aware of what Sci-Hub is. If you are not, I highly recommend this Science Magazine article titled, Read More
It has become widely known that scholarly publishing has been hit by its own version of Napster, with Alexandra Elbakyan’s creation of Sci-Hub, which offers up to 48 million pirated journal articles and, as we have more recently learned, hundreds of university press books through its dark-web companion site LibGen. Elbakyan’s site, which she initiated […]
Just like The Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub is domain hopping to beat takedown court orders.
Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The math is there for a new publishing model, but the will and the organizational efforts are lagging badly, especially in the leadership of ASA.
Should academic research be free? This question has been raging in the academic community for years now, though many free-the-data evangelists are not...
Data from the controversial website Sci-Hub reveal that the whole world turns to it for journal articles.
Like many scientist-editors of journals published by nonprofit scientific societies, I have a love-hate relationship with Sci-Hub, the website operated out of Russia that provides access to 50 million pirated scientific articles to researchers ...
A new report shows Sci-Hub is being used not just in developing countries but in Silicon Valley, the Washington D.C. region, and around major research universities.
Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world's knowledge and give it away for free.
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
Sci-Hub, a free online repository of academic articles, is the subject of a battle at the heart of open access.
The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a...