A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles – almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she’s now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world’s biggest publishers.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure
Meet the Robin Hood of Science
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science
The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Meet the Robin Hood of Science
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science
So how did researchers like Elbakyan ever survive before Sci-Hub? Elbakyan explains, “Before Sci-Hub, this problem was solved manually for years! For example, students would go to an online forum where other researchers communicate, and request papers there; other people would respond to the request.” This practice is widespread even today, with researchers even at rich Western institutions now routinely forced to email the authors of papers directly, asking for a copy by email, wasting the time of everyone involved and holding back the progress of research in the process.