Sci-Hub究竟如何影响学术出版？-Science-大不六文章网(wtoutiao.com)

From Google Translate: "How does Sci-Hub affect academic publishing?

Recently Sci-Hub in the academic publishing circle set off a boom, on the existence of its rationality and legitimacy, many scholars and publishers and other industry stakeholders have different opinions. After all, how Sci-Hub affects academic publishing, let's take a closer look.

What is Sci-Hub?

As the name suggests, Sci-Hub is an online academic search engine, founded by AlexandraElbakyan in 2011, which stores more than 50 million academic papers. Researchers simply enter the title of the article or DOI can immediately get the full text free of charge.

In general, researchers and academics can easily use Sci-Hub to search for the required articles, compared to other academic databases or search engines, their free availability becomes a huge advantage. However, in order to fully understand how Sci-Hub is to subvert the academic publishing community, we need to know the publishing process of traditional published journals and the way readers get information.

Second, the publication process and access to information access to journals

There are two main ways to run the publishing process and the access to journal information.

1. The researcher writes the paper and submits it to its target journal, where the journal publishers publish the paper in this journal. In this process, the researcher does not have to pay any fees, and others who want to read this Journals need to pay a certain fee.

2. The researcher writes the paper and submits it to the target journal and then pays a certain cost of publication. So that his (her) paper will be published in the form of open access (Open Access) published in the relevant journals, so that other readers want to read the papers can be free access, without having to pay any fees.

This open access to the publishing model in recent years, the rapid development of free open access, so that it has been around the scholars and researchers welcome. Such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, John Wiley and Taylor Francis and other traditional large-scale publishers have issued access to access to journals, the implementation of open access to publishing model, and other Open Access publishers have sprung up everywhere.

Third, Sci-Hub brought changes and distress

There is no doubt that the emergence of Sci-Hub undermines the traditional model of the two published, the creation of its full open access to it was labeled "piracy" and "illegal" label. Sci-Hub's popularity in the scientific community has also attracted the attention and anger of large academic journal publishers, who mainly come from the subscriptions of their publications. Obviously, Sci-Hub's series of acts directly affect and violate their interests. Data show that Sci-Hub downloads from around the world, which from Tunisia, India and other developing countries up to, and from the United States, Europe, the development of the country is also considerable.

From the legal point of view, Sci-Hub's behavior model has seriously damaged the interests of the academic publishing industry, leading to its face of piracy and infringement and a series of legal proceedings, and the Dutch veteran academic publishing house Elsevier in the name of infringement Sci-Hub filed a lawsuit. Although Sci-Hub's domain name was blocked in November 2015, the Sci-Hub did not disappear, but continued with other domain names or forms. Sci-Hub's founder said it would continue to focus on and contribute to this model, but it does not want to be concerned about this form, but hope that the current academic publishing industry to make some changes.

Fourth, the future and outlook

It is undeniable that the traditional publishing model led to the need for researchers to pay a high cost to get the article you want to read, even if he or she published his own papers in the journal. And the year-on-year costs have even made it difficult for universities with research funding or financially funded to pay for this part of the cost. At present, researchers have begun to do not open the academic resources of the publishers conducted a series of protests, but the influence of these acts for those who continue to access the academic resources of the researchers is still a drop in the bucket.

It seems that Sci-Hub will continue to exist in the publishing world, even if other stakeholders, such as large publishers continue to press. What we need to understand is that although the Sci-Hub does provide a variety of convenience for a limited number of researchers to obtain free academic resources, this behavior is still illegal and is contrary to academic ethics."