Sci-Hub – A pirating service for academic journal articles could bring down the whole establishment « Engineering, Science & Technology Resources Portal
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-02
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"I think the larger picture of this study is that this is the beginning of the end for subscription scholarly publishing. I think it is at this point inevitable that the subscription model is going to fail and more open models will be necessitated. One motivation for doing the study is that I want to bring that eventuality into reality more quickly."