What should we think about Sci-Hub? | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-23

Summary:

"So, Sci-Hub is the talk of the town. Everyone’s talking about it. I spent Friday afternoon at Manchester University library, giving a couple of taks about open access, and hearing several others about copyright. It was fascinating being a room full of librarians, all of them aware that Sci-Hub is out there, all of them torn between disapproval and excitement ... I like that its creator, Alexandra Elbakyan, isn’t at all shifty or covert about what she’s done. She’s loud and proud, and when Elsevier sued her in a New York court, her letter to the judge was defiant and well argued. When confronted with the illegality of Sci-Hub, she has argued that the business model of Elsevier and the other barrier-based legacy publishers is itself illegal, citing article 27 of the UN declaration on human rights: 'Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.' Other have chipped in: the extraordinary open letter In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub has been publicly signed by fourteen people who are prepared to be known supporters. And yet there is also a very widespread uneasiness about what is self-evidently a pirate site that systematically violates copyright law. What should we think about it? ..."

Link:

http://svpow.com/2016/02/22/what-should-we-think-about-sci-hub/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

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

Date tagged:

02/23/2016, 10:12

Date published:

02/23/2016, 05:12