Pirating Papers @ Study looks at the reasons why people pirate scholarly articles from peer-to-peer research sharing communities

Pirating Papers

Study looks at the reasons why people pirate scholarly articles from peer-to-peer research sharing communities -- it's more convenience than ideology.

Title |Fast and Furious (at Publishers): The Motivations behind Crowdsourced Research Sharing

Peer-to-peer research sharing looks a lot like sharing of other forms of media, a new study suggests. While some researchers are personally opposed to copyright, others pirate research simply for the sake of convenience.

Piracy been around for decades, but the sources of pirated music, movies and more have multiplied over the years, expanding beyond platforms such as Napster and the Pirate Bay. Today, many users search for copyrighted scholarly papers on Facebook, Reddit and Twitter or repositories such as Library Genesis (LibGen) and Sci-Hub.

LibGen and Sci-Hub have for years been engaged in a lawsuit brought by publisher Elsevier, which has sought to shut down the sites for copyright infringement. The case has pushed piracy in research to the forefront and also stoked some antipublisher sentiment.

Source | http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2016/02/25/crl16-840.full.pdf+html

Pralhad Jadhav

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