Elsevier Cracks Down on Pirated Scientific Articles

peter.suber's bookmarks 2015-06-13

Summary:

"Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific articles...."

Link:

http://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-cracks-down-on-pirated-scientific-articles-150609/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.elsevier oa.south oa.copyright oa.litigation

Date tagged:

06/13/2015, 17:37

Date published:

06/13/2015, 13:37