Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-05-13
Summary:
The over 50 million scholarly articles stolen by the pirates at Sci-Hub will significantly increase the occurrence of academic plagiarism. In some cases, Sci-Hub is able to download and re-publish content before it’s been crawled by plagiarism-detection companies — that is, before they can add newly-published content to their central indexes. Plagiarists already exploit open-access repositories […]