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On June 23, 2017, the American Chemical Society (ACS) filed suit in the United States District Court Eastern District of Virginia against unnamed confederates of Sci-Hub, a self-proclaimed web pirate organization that steals and then illegally reproduces and disseminates copyrighted scientific research articles on the internet.
Elsevier has been awarded $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories of millions of pirated scientific documents.
Nature - Some doubt that the publishing giant will see any money from the pirate site.
Read the latest article version by Bastian Greshake, at F1000Research.
This week I’m participating in the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) conference in the Washington, DC area. I was active in the first OSI meeting last year, and am looking forward to this o…
Nature writer Richard Van Noorden recently asked us for our thoughts about Sci-Hub, since in many ways it’s quite similar to our newest project, oaDOI. We love the idea of comparing the two, and thought he had (as usual) good questions. His recent piece on Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan quotes some of our responses to him; we’re sharing […]
Gabriel J. Gardner, senior assistant librarian for criminal justice, linguistics and Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures at the California State University, Long Beach. Gardner will discuss the guerilla open access movement.
In the ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against alleged pirate sites Sci-Hub, Libgen and Bookfi, academic publisher Elsevier wants help from Cloudflare. The publisher informs the court that a subpoena against Cloudflare is needed to expose the personal details of the sites' owners.
The crisis of academic publishing and the uncertain future of the humanities.
The website repository Sci-Hub, which enables users to freely download scholarly articles that normally require institutional subscriptions or individual payments, has found itself at the center of a series of conflicts over the past year. Many publishers are increasingly angry at the theft of copyrighted material, with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) going so far as to censure an academic librarian for his comments on Sci-Hub during a panel at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in Orlando in June.
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
Go To Hellman: Wiley's Fake Journal of Constructive Metaphysics and the War on Automated Downloading
Suppose you were a publisher and you wanted to get the goods on a pirate who was downloading your subscription content and giving it away f...
In April of this year, John Bohannon , a freelance journalist working for Science magazine, in cooperation with Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub’s founder, released and analysed 6 months of Sci-Hu…