New round in battle for open access

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-20

Summary:

[From Google's English] "Although the scientific publisher Elsevier recently managed to close a deal with scientific journals open access, the discussion about the public availability of published articles is far from over. So there pirate site Sci-Hub, which also does a two cents. The site is back online after publishers last year over the judge had taken off the air the site due to copyright infringement. The Russian neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan and founder of pirate site Sci-Hub believes that all scientific research should be available to everyone. It is usually paid with public money and subscriptions from publishers are very expensive, while the scientist often still have to pay to be listed in the prestigious journals of the scientific publishers. Want to read the articles you often have to pay again for each single item. There are now reading since its launch in 2011 Sci-Hub 47 million scientific articles. The items were collected using passwords that scientists found available. The site violates almost certainly any copyright, reason for scientific publisher Elsevier to do battle last year. Successfully. A judge ruled that the site had to be taken off the air ..."

Link:

https://www.villamedia.nl/artikel/nieuwe-ronde-in-strijd-voor-open-acces

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.german oa.litigation oa.takedowns oa.elsevier oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.sci-hub oa.piracy oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

02/20/2016, 08:55

Date published:

02/20/2016, 03:55