22.02.2018
Diffusion des savoirs scientifiques, Enseignement supérieur et recherche, Ressources scientifiques et techniques
Measuring the impact of piracy and open access on the academic library services
« The University of Geneva library has seen,like others around the world,a slight but steady decrease in its document delivery service usage for a few years now and this decline also seems to affect the use of the electronic licensed collection. Indeed, 2016 was the first year where usage of licensed journals decreased. How could it be correlated with other actual trends, such as an ever growing open access corpus and an increased visibility of shadow libraries like Sci-Hub? To what resources and services, beside the offer of the library, can our scholars turn when they need an article? (…) »
