Web sources of literature for teachers and researchers: Practices and attitudes of Croatian faculty toward legal digital libraries and shadow libraries such as Sci-Hub

Duić, Mirko; Konjevod, Barbara; Grzunov, Laura

doi:10.23919/mipro.2017.7973535

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“…Other studies regarding the use of Sci-Hub have introduced survey results but their samples were restricted to medical students (Mejia et al, 2017), limited to one institution (Duic ́et al, 2017), or recruited through a convenience sample resulting in their results being biased toward heavy users of the service (Travis, 2016). Other qualitative studies have also addressed the issue of Black OA, but they have been restricted to early career researchers (Nicholas et al, 2019).…”

Section: Justification and Noveltymentioning

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Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives

Segado‐Boj

Quevedo

Prieto-Gutierrez

2022

Information Development

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Despite the advance of the Open Access (OA) movement, most scholarly production can only be accessed through a paywall. We conduct an international survey among researchers (N = 3304) to measure the willingness and motivations to use (or not use) scholarly piracy sites, and other alternatives to overcome a paywall such as paying with their own money, institutional loans, just reading the abstract, asking the corresponding author for a copy of the document, asking a colleague to get the document for them, or searching for an OA version of the paper. We also explore differences in terms of age, professional position, country income level, discipline, and commitment to OA. The results show that researchers most frequently look for OA versions of the documents. However, more than 50% of the participants have used a scholarly piracy site at least once. This is less common in high-income countries, and among older and better-established scholars. Regarding disciplines, such services were less used in Life & Health Sciences and Social Sciences. Those who have never used a pirate library highlighted ethical and legal objections or pointed out that they were not aware of the existence of such libraries.

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Section: Justification and Noveltymentioning

confidence: 99%

Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives

Segado‐Boj

Quevedo

Prieto-Gutierrez

2022

Information Development

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“…Mejia et al (2017) evaluated the use, knowledge and perception of the scientific contribution of Sci-Hub in medical students from Latin America, and their results indicate that majority of students are not aware of Sci-Hub. Duic et al (2017) explored the practices and attitudes of Croatian faculty related to the use of web sources in scientific papers. Although respondents of a questionnaire indicated that pirate portals like Sci-Hub are the least used, log analysis allowed to identify which scientific papers are requested in the pirate web portal Sci-Hub.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The black crow of science and its impact: analyzing Sci-Hub use with Google Trends

Behboudi

Shamsi

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2021

LHT

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PurposeIn 2016, Bohannon published an article analyzing the download rate of the top ten countries using the illegal Sci-Hub website. Four years later, this study approaches the search behavior of these ten countries as they query about Sci-Hub in Google's search engine, the world's most widely used search engine. The authors also tracked the possible consequences of using Sci-Hub, such as plagiarism.Design/methodology/approachThe search terms “Sci-Hub”, “Plagiarism” and “Plagiarism Checker” were explored with Google Trends. The queries were performed globally and individually for the ten target countries, all categories and web searches. The time range was limited between 1/1/2016 (after the date of publication of Bohannon's work) and 29/03/2020. Data were extracted from Google Trends and the findings were mapped.FindingsSearching for the word Sci-Hub on Google has increased nearly eightfold worldwide in the last four years, with China, Ethiopia and Tunisia having the most searches. Sci-Hub's search trends increased for most of the T10C, with Brazil and Iran having the highest and lowest average searches, respectively.Originality/valueAccess to the research literature is required to the progress of research, but it should not be obtained illegally. Given the increasing incidence of these problems in countries at any level of development, it is important to pay attention to ethics education in research and establish ethics committees. A comprehensive review of the research process is required to reduce the urge to circumvent copyright laws and includes training and educating research stakeholders in copyright literacy. To address these goals, national and international seriousness and enthusiasm are essential.

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Breach of academic values and misconduct: the case of Sci-Hub

Rossello,

Martinelli

2024

Scientometrics

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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. We test our framework by examining the use of Sci-Hub and providing empirical evidence that the loss of faith in scientific research sparkles research-related misconduct against publishers. Based on a stratified sample of 2849 academics working in 30 institutions in 6 European countries, we find that ideology-based psychological contract breach explains Sci-Hub usage, also when controlling for other possible motivations. The magnitude of the effect depends on contextual and demographic characteristics. Females, foreign, and tenured scholars are less likely to download papers illegally when experiencing a contract breach of academic values. Our results suggest that policies restoring academic values might also address research-related misconduct.

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Web sources of literature for teachers and researchers: Practices and attitudes of Croatian faculty toward legal digital libraries and shadow libraries such as Sci-Hub

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives

Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives

The black crow of science and its impact: analyzing Sci-Hub use with Google Trends

Breach of academic values and misconduct: the case of Sci-Hub

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