{"id":7938,"date":"2016-03-15T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:19:04","slug":"sci-hub-robin-hood-or-nefarious-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/sci-hub-robin-hood-or-nefarious-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"SCI-HUB: Robin Hood or Nefarious Pirate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/03\/CALLOUT_SciHub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7965\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/03\/CALLOUT_SciHub.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_SciHub\" width=\"364\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ll not mince words: subscriptions to academic journals can be quite pricey. And for students and scholars in the developing world, such subscriptions can be prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Some may argue that the free market should dictate journal costs, while others argue there is a moral imperative to include the widest range of scholars access to scholarly conversations by making scholarship freely available.<\/p>\n<p>Still others have taken action into their own hands by sharing scholarly works in violation of terms of use and\/or copyright. To some, these people are Robin Hood-like heroes, to others they are criminal pirates.<\/p>\n<p>SCI-HUB is the most recent hub of activity for those interested in accessing pirated scholarly articles. It provides access to nearly 48 million academic papers. The site was established in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan, a twenty-something student from Kazakhstan who was inspired by her own inability to afford access to research articles for her own research.<\/p>\n<p>How does one use SCI-HUB? Currently you navigate to <a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.io\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.io\/<\/a> (sci-hub.org has been shut down due to a lawsuit from journal publisher Elsevier). Then provide the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_object_identifier\">DOI<\/a> of the article you\u2019re seeking, and the site provides you with a PDF of the article you\u2019re seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound students, faculty, and staff shouldn\u2019t feel pressured to use a site like SCI-HUB, as Collins subscribes to a broad collection of scholarly journals, and can provide access to many more via interlibrary loan. However, many scholars are not so fortunate, and SCI-HUB provides a useful if illicit solution for them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0By Ben Tucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll not mince words: subscriptions to academic journals can be quite pricey. And for students and scholars in the developing world, such subscriptions can be prohibitively expensive. Some may argue that the free market should dictate journal costs, while others &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/sci-hub-robin-hood-or-nefarious-pirate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}