[LIS-Forum] Sci-Hub Case: The Court Should Protect Science From Greedy Academic Publishers

[Vinit Kumar]

These pirate websites are killing revenue of academic publishers indirectly
harming science communication. To compensate their losses due to these
pirate websites the publishers increase subscription costs which are again
have to paid by funding agencies.
No doubt reforms are needed to regress academic publishers' increasing
subscription prices and Article Processing Fees but such kind of gross
copyright infringements will hamper publishers' rights and ultimately
reduce the publication avenues for authors. We have seen mushrooming of low
quality free journals in recent years compelling UGC to come up with a
white list. The copyright laws are to promote and incentivise intellectual
output by protecting the rights of creaters.

In my opinion, rather than asking everything for free we need to increase
funding towards research.

Regards --
Vinit Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Science,
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A central university)
Lucknow
226025


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On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 1:28 PM madhan muthu <mu.madhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sci-Hub Case: The Court Should Protect Science From Greedy Academic
> Publishers
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> A court of law in India shouldn't allow itself to become a tool for
> perpetuating inequalities in access to scientific literature in the
> developing world.
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> https://thewire.in/law/sci-hub-elsevier-delhi-high-court-access-medical-literature-scientific-publishing-access-inequity
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