{"id":4240,"date":"2016-02-19T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2016-02-21T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:05:58","slug":"sci-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/sci-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a fascinating article<\/a> on Sci-Hub, the “Pirate Bay” of scientific research papers. Really, go read it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My sympathy lies with Alexandra Elbakyan. The key points to me are that researchers already informally download or ask other researchers for preprints. Sci-Hub wastes less time for this process. In physical terms, the very minor value-added of the final copy vs. the author’s draft is the main thing being “stolen”. Given that researchers make no royalties off the papers, there’s no loss to them there. The main thing journals sell is prestige.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That said, I don’t want journals to die on the vine, they deserve some money (though certain publishers seem way too profitable). I don’t see a good solution to these constraints:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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