2017
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.11366.1
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Looking into Pandora's Box: The Content of Sci-Hub and its Usage

Abstract: Despite the growth of Open Access, potentially illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phenomenon. The web service Sci-Hub is amongst the biggest facilitators of this, offering free access to around 62 million publications. So far it is not well studied how and why its users are accessing publications through Sci-Hub. By utilizing the recently released corpus of Sci-Hub and comparing it to the data of  ~28 million downloads done through the service, this … Show more

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“…These include discovery platforms like ScienceOpen and 1Science, and browser-based extensions like the Open Access Button, Canary Haz, and Unpaywall. Third, Sci-Hub (a website offering pirate access to full text articles) has built an enormous user base, provoking newly intense conversation around the ethics and efficiency of paywall publishing (Bohannon, 2016;Greshake, 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oapilot-guide_en.pdf authors an increasingly popular but controversial solution to author self-archiving (Björk, 2016). Finally, the increasing growth in the cost of toll-access subscriptions, particularly via so-called "Big Deals" from publishers, has begun to force libraries and other institutions to initiate large-scale subscription cancellations; recent examples include Caltech, the University of Maryland, University of Konstanz, Université de Montréal, and the national system of Peru (Université de Montréal, 2017;Schiermeier & Mega, 2017;Anderson, 2017;Universitat Konstanz, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These include discovery platforms like ScienceOpen and 1Science, and browser-based extensions like the Open Access Button, Canary Haz, and Unpaywall. Third, Sci-Hub (a website offering pirate access to full text articles) has built an enormous user base, provoking newly intense conversation around the ethics and efficiency of paywall publishing (Bohannon, 2016;Greshake, 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oapilot-guide_en.pdf authors an increasingly popular but controversial solution to author self-archiving (Björk, 2016). Finally, the increasing growth in the cost of toll-access subscriptions, particularly via so-called "Big Deals" from publishers, has begun to force libraries and other institutions to initiate large-scale subscription cancellations; recent examples include Caltech, the University of Maryland, University of Konstanz, Université de Montréal, and the national system of Peru (Université de Montréal, 2017;Schiermeier & Mega, 2017;Anderson, 2017;Universitat Konstanz, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Third, social sharing networks have increasingly made scholarly publications freely available, often in breach of copyright regulations [3]. Finally, the website Sci-Hub illegally hosts more than 70 million research articles, providing access to the majority of recently-published articles worldwide [4]. In total, these initiatives have resulted in a rapid increase in research publications that are free to read on the Internet.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Среди них -платформы дискавери ScienceOpen и 1Science, а также браузерные расширения Open Access Button, Canary Haz и Unpaywall. В-третьих, то, что Sci-Hub (сайт, предлагающий пиратский свободный доступ к полным текстам статей) собрал огромное количество пользователей, вызвало интенсивное обсуждение этики и эффективности платного доступа [1,2]. Научные социальные сети ResearchGate и Academia.edu предлагают авторам все более популярные, но сомнительные решения по архивации своих работ [3,4].…”
Section: Scholarly Information and Research Managementunclassified
“…Мы оцениваем относительное влияние закрытых и открытых статей с помощью ссылок на них как показателя их научного влияния. Но есть ряд свойств статей, которые могут отрицательно вли- [8,[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]9]), 11,3% золотых (95% CI [9,[9][10][11][12]8]) и 6,3% зеленых (95% CI [4,8] доставления статьи в открытом доступе обычно отличается от даты первой официальной публикации. Нередко авторы самоархивируют статьи гораздо позже (а иногда и раньше, если речь идет о препринтах) даты их официальной публикации.…”
Section: выборки сформированные для данного исследованияunclassified
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