« In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and…
« This paper investigates the growing evidence of research-related misconduct by developing and testing a theoretical framework. We study the deep causes of misconduct by asking whether the perception of an erosion of the core academic values, formally an ideology-based psychological contract breach, is associated with research-related misconduct. (…) »
« Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more than 2 million scholarly publications, monographs, and textbooks available. This paper analyzes a set of weblogs of one of the Library Genesis mirrors,…
« Sci-Hub emerged into the field of scientific communication in 2011 as a platform for free access to scientific papers. It is the most popular of the so-called shadow libraries, systems that overcome the limits of legal access to scientific publications, standing apart from the open access movement. Besides from the…
« How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs. He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the existing status…
« (…) Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions. While illegal access to published content is the most obvious target, this is just the tip of an…
« Le piratage de contenus en numérique fait peur tant aux auteurs qu’aux éditeurs. Mais ont-ils conscience des véritables raisons qui peuvent pousser les lecteurs à télécharger illégalement leurs livres sur le Web ? Si dans certains cas les professionnels n’ont pas de prise sur cette forme de consommation illicite,…
« Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
Gabriel J. Gardner is a librarian at California State University at Long Beach. He studies, among other things, the reasons that some scholars — even…
(…) Pour la revue Science, le 29 avril, John Bohannon a détaillé six mois de données de connection à Sci-hub, fournies par Alexandra Elbakyan. 28 millions de requêtes ont été formulées au site, pour 3 millions d’identités Internet différentes (les adresses IP) en provenance de 27 000 villes.…
