The IPKat: Paywalls and Robin Hoods: the tale of Elsevier and Sci-Hub.org

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-06

Summary:

"This Kat sometimes wonders whether every big copyright dispute these days seems to have a major political or philosophical subtext to it -- an example of which can be found below. From guest contributor Emma Perot comes this appraisal of a dispute (reported on TorrentFreak here) between a giant publisher of valuable and useful scholarly material on the one hand, and those who seek access to that same information on the other. Writes Emma ..."

Link:

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/10/paywalls-and-robin-hoods-tale-of.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.elsevier oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.litigation oa.takedowns oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.sci-hub oa.libre oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

12/06/2015, 09:30

Date published:

12/06/2015, 04:30