Scholarly Publishing Has Its Napster Moment – Slaw

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-05-11

Summary:

"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."

Link:

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/04/28/scholarly-publishing-has-its-napster-moment/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.sci-hub oa.piracy oa.publishing oa.library_genesis oa.elsevier oa.copyright oa.litigation oa.publishers oa.sustainability oa.economics_of oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

05/11/2016, 10:08

Date published:

05/11/2016, 06:08