Black market in academic papers is spooking publishers - University World News

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-05-02

Summary:

" ... For the last few years, there has been a new player in town. Sci-Hub, a website developed in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, is a repository for over 48 million papers which continues to grow every day. Elbakyan has been called a modern-day Robin Hood by some. The publishing company Elsevier is currently suing Sci-Hub and Elbakyan in New York for copyright infringement. After Elsevier won a temporary injunction against the site in January, it reopened with a new domain name ..."

Link:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2016042009581751

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.debates oa.sci-hub oa.priacy oa.elsevier oa.publishers oa.litigation oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.economics_of oa.libre oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

05/02/2016, 09:48

Date published:

05/02/2016, 05:48