Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers

Schiermeier, Quirin

doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876

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“…The use of Sci-Hub was associated with higher prevalence of scientific publications among medical students (PR: 1.81; CI95%: 1.50-2.20). Students feel the great need to obtain access to payed articles, leading to seek free access throughout Sci-Hub (19,21). However, even those students who do not face a paying wall, found convenient to reduce the time and simplicity of browses using Sci-Hub (23).…”

Section: Pirated Academic Accounts and Use Of Sci-hubmentioning

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Associated factors with reaching a scientific publication during medical training: evidence from 40 medical schools surveyed in Latin America.

Valladares-Garrido¹,

Mejía²,

Rojas-Alvarado³

et al. 2020

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Background Scientific publication during medical training is key to promote an enduring cutting-edge knowledge. The promotion of science among medical students in Latin America is a multi-sphere issue hampered by the unawareness of governments to invest in national research, as well as a lack of support from local universities. This study aims to determine the factors associated to reach a scientific publication during medical training among Latin American medical students of local scientific societies. Methods This is a secondary-data-analysis of a study conducted in 2016 to evaluate the use of information and communications technologies (TICs) among medical students of 40 local scientific societies of medical students affiliated to the Latin American Federation of Medical Students Scientific Societies (FELSOCEM, in Spanish). Local teams in each local scientific society surveyed self-reported scientific publications and explored its association with socioeconomic, academic, and research training conditions. We included medical students enrolled in the 2016-I term and excluded medical interns. We implemented nested models to identify covariates associated with self-reported scientific publication until reaching a parsimonious mixed-effect multilevel model clustered by medical scientific society. Results We surveyed 11,587 medical students. The prevalence of scientific publications increased in 36% among medical students affiliated to a Scientific Society of Medical Students [parsimonious prevalence ratio (PRp)=1.36, 95%CI=1.16–1.59], 51% among medical students with advanced English proficiency [PRp=1.51, 95%CI=1.21 – 1.87], 85% among medical students who attended a scientific writing skills course [PRp=1.85, 95%CI=1.59–2.15], 81% among medical students who use Sci-hub [PRp=1.81, 95%CI=1.50–2.20], and 108% among medical students who have access to a pirated academic account [PRp=2.08, 95%CI=1.83–2.36]. Conclusions Reaching a scientific publication among medical students is associated with being affiliated to a Scientific Society of Medical Students, English proficiency, training in scientific writing, use of Sci-Hub, and pirated academic accounts.

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Section: Pirated Academic Accounts and Use Of Sci-hubmentioning

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Associated factors with reaching a scientific publication during medical training: evidence from 40 medical schools surveyed in Latin America.

Valladares-Garrido¹,

Mejía²,

Rojas-Alvarado³

et al. 2020

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“…Another way to say this is that Academia.edu is like Sci-Hub, but with venture backing (and a carefully written, liability-dodging "Copyright Policy") (Academia.edu, 2016d). 5 Given the site's brazen and unrelenting appeals for paper uploads, Academia.edu (and ResearchGate) would appear vulnerable to publisher lawsuits-like the one that Elsevier has doggedly pursued against Sci-Hub, the shadowy PDF-sharing repository (Schiermeier, 2015). In 2013, the Anglo-Dutch publishing giant issued a flurry of takedown notices to Academia.edu (Howard, 2013).…”

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“Facebook for Academics”: The Convergence of Self-Branding and Social Media Logic on Academia.edu

Duffy

Pooley

2017

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Given widespread labor market precarity, contemporary workers-especially those in the media and creative industriesare increasingly called upon to brand themselves. Academics, we contend, are experiencing a parallel pressure to engage in self-promotional practices, particularly as universities become progressively more market-driven. Academia.edu, a papersharing social network that has been informally dubbed "Facebook for academics," has grown rapidly by adopting many of the conventions of popular social media sites. This article argues that the astonishing uptake of Academia.edu both reflects and amplifies the self-branding imperatives that many academics experience. Drawing on Academia.edu's corporate history, design decisions, and marketing communications, we analyze two overlapping facets of Academia.edu: (1) the site's business model and (2) its social affordances. We contend that the company, like mainstream social networks, harnesses the content and immaterial labor of users under the guise of "sharing." In addition, the site's fixation on analytics reinforces a culture of incessant self-monitoring-one already encouraged by university policies to measure quantifiable impact. We conclude by identifying the stakes for academic life, when entrepreneurial and self-promotional demands brush up against the university's knowledge-making ideals.

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“…The website Sci-Hub, now in its sixth year of existence, provides gratis access to scholarly literature, despite the continued presence of paywalls. Sci-Hub brands itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.” The website, started in 2011, is run by Alexandra Elbakyan, a graduate student and native of Kazakhstan who now resides in Russia ( Bohannon, 2016a ; Schiermeier, 2015 ). Elbakyan describes herself as motivated to provide universal access to knowledge ( Elbakyan, 2016a ; Elbakyan, 2015 ; Milova, 2017 ).…”

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“…D Elsevier is granted a preliminary injunction to suspend domain names and restrain the site operators from distributing Elsevier’s copyrighted works ( Van der Sar, 2015b ; Sweet, 2015 ). Shortly after, Sci-Hub and LibGen resurface at alternative domains outside of U.S. court jurisdiction, including on the dark web ( Schiermeier, 2015 ; Van der Sar, 2015c ).…”

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Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

Himmelstein

Romero

Levernier

et al. 2018

eLife

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The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage has been unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.1% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher, and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, a major research university in the United States. Green open access to toll access articles via licit services, on the other hand, remains quite limited. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.

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Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers

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Associated factors with reaching a scientific publication during medical training: evidence from 40 medical schools surveyed in Latin America.

Associated factors with reaching a scientific publication during medical training: evidence from 40 medical schools surveyed in Latin America.

“Facebook for Academics”: The Convergence of Self-Branding and Social Media Logic on Academia.edu

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

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