[IRTalk] Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement by Balázs Bodó :: SSRN

[Hilton Gibson]

*2016 is the year when piracy finally became an unavoidable topic in the
domain of scholarly communications.* The public exposure of Sci-Hub, a
copyright infringing site that provides free access to paywalled journal
databases, electrified the decade old debates about the role of scholars,
(commercial) publishers, libraries, and copyright in creating an
environment, where results of scholarly inquiry are equally accessible for
all.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2816925
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