The use of shadow libraries at Universitas Indonesia
Authors : Fauzan Eka Kusuma, Rahmi Rahmi Shadow libraries (SLs), such as Sci-Hub, Z-Library, and Library Genesis (LibGen), are online databases that provide con...
Étiquette : dark open access
On the culture of open access: the Sci-hub paradox
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho Shadow libraries have gradually become key players of scientific knowledge dissemination, despite their illegality in ...
Free access to scientific literature and its influence on the publishing activity in developing countries: The effect of Sci-Hub in the field of mathematics
Authors : Kilian Buehling, Matthias Geissler, Dorothea Strecker This paper investigates whether free access to scientific literature increases the participation...
Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia
Authors : Balázs Bodó, Dániel Antal, Zoltán Puha Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authori...
Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
Author : Joe Karaganis Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand...
We’ve failed: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach
Author : Toby Green Key points Sci-Hub has made nearly all articles freely available using a black open access model, leaving green and gold models in its dust....
Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature
Authors : Daniel S. Himmelstein, Ariel R. Romero, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Casey S. Greene The website Sci-Hub provides access to scholarly literature via ful...