Signal, Not Solution: Notes on Why Sci-Hub Is Not Opening Access

Priego, Ernesto

doi:10.15200/winn.145624.49417

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“…Sci-Hub hosts more than 50 million research articles (Machin-Mastromatteo et al 2016). Notably, Himmelstein et al (2017) argue that the subscription-based model is becoming unsustainable because almost the entirety of scholarly research is now freely available thanks to Sci-Hub, but recent literature has addressed limitations and problems of the Sci-Hub initiative as well (Lawson 2017;Priego 2016). Due to the illegal nature of the service, and lack of external indexation of content found in Sci-Hub (e.g.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Open access in ethics research: an analysis of open access availability and author self-archiving behaviour in light of journal copyright restrictions

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Polonioli

2018

Scientometrics

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The current state of open access to journal publications within research areas belonging to the humanities has received relatively little research attention. This study provides a detailed mapping of the bibliometric state of open access to journal publications among ethicists, taking into account not only open access publishing in journals directly, but also where and in what form ethicists make their journal articles available elsewhere on the web. As part of the study 297 ethicists affiliated with top-ranking philosophy departments were identified and their journal publication information for the years 2010-2015 were recorded (1682 unique articles). The journal articles were then queried for through Google Scholar in order to establish open access status (web locations, document versions) of each publication record. Publication records belonging to the 20 most frequently used journal outlets (subset of 597 unique articles) were put under closer inspection with regards to alignment with publisher copyright restrictions as well as measuring unused potential to share articles. The results show that slightly over half of recent journal publications are available to read for free. PhilPapers and academic social networks (Academia.edu and ResearchGate) were found to be key platforms for research dissemination in ethics research. The representation of institutional repositories as providers of access was found to be weak, receiving the second lowest frequency rating among the eight discrete web location categories. Further, the study reveals that ethicists are at the same time prone to copyright infringement and undersharing their scholarly work.

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Open access in ethics research: an analysis of open access availability and author self-archiving behaviour in light of journal copyright restrictions

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Polonioli

2018

Scientometrics

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“…Elbakyan (2016aElbakyan ( , 2016b explains that Sci-Hub is a goal and claimed that it is a "true solution to open access". Few other studies (Faust, 2016;Greshake, 2017;Priego, 2016) (Green, 2017). Strielkowski (2017) explored the question whether rise of Sci-Hub will pave the road for subscription-based access to publishing and suggested a subscription-based model as a solution to open access.…”

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The case of significant variations in gold–green and black open access: evidence from Indian research output

2020

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Open Access has emerged as an important movement worldwide during the last decade. There are several initiatives now that persuade researchers to publish in open access journals and to archive their pre-or post-print versions of papers in repositories. Institutions and funding agencies are also promoting ways to make research outputs available as open access. This paper looks at open access levels and patterns in research output from India by computationally analyzing research publication data obtained from Web of Science for India for the last five years (2014-2018). The corresponding data from other connected platforms-Unpaywall and Sci-Hub-are also obtained and analyzed. The results obtained show that about 24% of research output from India, during last five years, is available in legal forms of open access as compared to world average of about 30%. More articles are available in gold open access as compared to green and bronze. On the contrary, more than 90% of the research output from India is available for free download in Sci-Hub. We also found disciplinary differentiation in open access, but surprisingly these patterns are different for gold-green and black open access forms. Sci-Hub appears to be complementing the legal gold-green open access for less covered disciplines in them. The central institutional repositories in India are found to have low volume of research papers deposited.

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“…Pirated articles are also not openly licensed, thus limiting their reuse in some contexts. 29 However, whatever your opinion on the ethics of piracy, in a digitally connected world with ready access to pirated scholarship, focusing effort on maintaining exclusionary systems of access based on ability to pay appears increasingly futile.…”

Section: Open Access As a Progressive Alternativementioning

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Access, ethics and piracy

Stuart

2017

Insights the UKSG Journal

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Signal, Not Solution: Notes on Why Sci-Hub Is Not Opening Access

Cited by 16 publications

References 1 publication

Open access in ethics research: an analysis of open access availability and author self-archiving behaviour in light of journal copyright restrictions

Open access in ethics research: an analysis of open access availability and author self-archiving behaviour in light of journal copyright restrictions

The case of significant variations in gold–green and black open access: evidence from Indian research output

Access, ethics and piracy

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