Re: [InetBib] Sci hub ... Bibliotheken ...

[Karl Dietz <karl.dz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Washington Post ... Sci-Hub


„The $10 billion world of academic publishing has been roiled in
recent months by Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old grad student from
Kazakhstan who set up an online database of 50 million stolen academic
research papers for anyone to download for free.

Scholars have long denounced a publishing system in which they provide
their research for free to companies that sell it at high rates of
return. Some view Elbakyan as a modern-day Robin Hood. The publishers
say she is simply a criminal, relying on a system that uses stolen
passwords to access data. (…)

But the map below shows heavy use around the United States, too.
Bohannon writes that a “quarter of the Sci-Hub requests for papers
came from the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development, the wealthiest nations with, supposedly, the best
journal access. In fact, some of the most intense use of Sci-Hub
appears to be happening on the campuses of U.S. and European
universities.” (…)

But even if some government somewhere was able to shut down Sci-Hub,
Elbakyan told Bohannon that the 50 million stolen papers have already
been copied many times, presumably stored somewhere on the dark web.“


via digithek.ch <== fine blog



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> Alexandra Elbakyan, the neuroscientist from Kazakhstan who created
> Sci-Hub, for instance, was able to rig up a system that basically
> jumped the fence of journal paywalls. When someone requested an
> article, her system first checked the LibGen database. But if the
> article wasn’t there, the system used donated passwords to log into
> journal websites, download the article, and deliver it both to the
> user who requested it and the main database. It’s a much more
> efficient system than theinformal #icanhazPDF economy in which
> researchers would request certain documents on social media and hope a
> kind soul would provide.
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> via facebook
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> > > https://schneeschmelze.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/nachdenken-ueber-sci-hub/
> > Ergänzend zum link oben auf das blog von jürgen fenn
> > noch ein hinweis auf einen lesenswerten artikel von h. herb auf heise de
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> >
> > Guerilla Open Access und Robin-Hood-PR ...
> > www.heise.de › TELEPOLIS › Wissenschaft
> > 04.03.2016
> >
> > 48 000 000 artikel online
> > 200 000 downloads pro tag
> > und 1 manifest gibt es auch ...