Sci- Hub may be able to fool legal systems the world over by continually changing servers or distributing them across many continents and on many service providers. And though the court order made Sci- Hub temporarily unavailable on the mainstream internet, it was up and running on Tor, an encrypted, totally anonymous network. As Kaveh Waddell points out in the Atlantic, it took an enormous amount of effort for the government to bring down the Silk Road, a Tor network that sold drugs. By all accounts, Elbakyan has resolved to keep the project going.
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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Alexandra Elbakyan has had enough. Either way, what she's doing is most definitely illegal. If Sci-Hub wins, the age of academic paywalls may effectively be over.
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall Sci-hub Elbakyan's personal story is like many others. Elbakyan explained her predicament in a letter to the New York court that ruled against her: When I was a student in Kazakhstan university, I did not have access to any research papers. How popular is Sci-Hub? This map, produced by Science , shows where in the world the downloads are coming from. Delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email.
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After World War II, government, as well as industrial funding of university science laboratories, led to unprecedented specialization of the sciences. And although this can be viewed as a good thing for science, it led to the apparition of many specialized journals with a similar and narrow focus. Aside from the publication costs, another problem for libraries is subscription packages that bundle hundreds of journals of widely varying quality.
Bundling is a strategy publishers use to sell journals that few libraries would subscribe to if they were to be selected individually - libraries are unable to choose specific journals while refusing others. Consequently, to get the desired journals, they must also accept poor-quality journals with few readers. Also related to the subscription packages, some publishers require libraries to sign nondisclosure agreements that forbid them from disclosing the cost and terms of journal package subscriptions.
Many academics prefer to publish their work in older, established journals from prestigious publishers, which makes it challenging for new journals to recruit authors, editors, and peer reviewers. Moreover, citation indexing services also favor established journals and publishers. Discouraging the apparition of new aspiring journals essentially, discouraging competition further consolidates established journals and publishers oligopoly.
Open Access. The Open Access movement goal is to make scientific research content available for everyone. Journal subscriptions are much more expensive than magazine subscriptions - hundreds or thousands of dollars a year for just one journal. The students' eyes went wide at the last statement about the cost of journal subscriptions.
Since I had about 90 seconds to provide some kind of answer to this question, my mind quickly raced through the details of the " serials crisis ," distinctions between journal prices for STM and humanities journals, the rise of the for-profit publisher after World War II, open access mandates and everything else. In the end, I told the student there were two main reasons why publishers charge so much for journal subscriptions:. The subscription isn't just for one person, it is so that everyone at the university could theoretically read that content.
Journals have content articles, reviews that scholars and students want. Due to the nature of academic publishing, that exact same content the results from a particular study or experiment can't be found in another journal. These mini-monopolies put power in the hands of publishers as scientists and scholars need access to particular content. It's kind of like the way that HBO can control its subscription price. The major difference here is that unlike TV shows for entertainment purposes, some scholarly content can be considered vital to the educational and research mission of a college, making it difficult to say NO to.
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