Sci Hub, interlibrary loan and Open Access | Archivalia

[From Google's English] "Sci Hub is a dream. One enters a DOI and gets - very often - after a short waiting period for a PDF of the desired scientific magazine article. For the publishers' lobby Sci Hub is more of a nightmare. Sci Hub is illegal, they continually repeated way, and to read even that there were really no access problem in scientific literature. It will be published too much, as that could achieve an adequate distribution of the world's developed knowledge treasure with the current system. Even the richest universities can not afford all research-related resources to. While the magazine prices rise and, for example, the world's largest publisher Elsevier bring immense profits stagnate library budgets. The organizations that make science possible, the libraries and a majority of scientists for years know the solution to the problem: Open Access. But the coming despite all the advances progressed very slowly ... Sci Hub is not the only shadow library or non-official or suspected illegal procurement strategy. There #icanhazpdf on Twitter (see Gardner / Gardner 2015 PDF ) and special forums particularly in emerging markets such as China, which blithely ezProxy accesses published years ago (they are probably still, but they are no longer visible). Set in a Spanish PDF 2007 described methods, "chop" to Google, work still partly because there are still people who write passwords into easily accessible power. But Sci-stroke in this area is the most convenient solution, since it users to search for suitable approaches for a particular database or journal decreases and adjusts PDFs once found in LIBGEN.  A legal way to read comfortably items at home, is the Remote Access in library databases.He is almost always only university staff members and students, although there are some - are opportunities for citizens - in the scientific community probably little known. I have towrite several posts . The largest and, moreover, free offer for people with German residence offer the so-called national licenses .  To compensate local stockouts, the libraries of developed countries have long been an effective means: the order of literature from abroad for its users, in Germany known as interlibrary loan, in the US as Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Then there are the so-called Direct Order, which is more expensive but also more convenient for the user, as they are free house provides the ordered media, analog or electronically. In Germany in particular issubito portal disseminated ..."