Russia is building a new Napster โ€” but for academic research - The Washington Post

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Summary:

"Over the last decade, Russian academics and activists have built free, remarkably comprehensive online archives of scholarly works. What Napster was to music, the Russian shadow libraries are to knowledge.

Much of the current attention to these libraries focuses on Sci-Hub, a huge online library created by Kazakhstan-based graduate student Aleksandra Elbakyan."

Link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/07/13/russia-is-building-a-new-napster-but-for-academic-research/

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oa.new oa.piracy oa.sci-hub oa.russia oa.library_genesis oa.copyright oa.litigation oa.publishers oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

07/13/2018, 15:49

Date published:

07/13/2018, 11:49