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

[Murari Tapaswi]

I disagree with Prof. Vinit Kumar's arguments that (1) the publishers
charge heavily to compensate sci-hub downloads. The subscription of the
journals of these publishers were as high as of today before sci-hub was
born. (2) such acts would reduce the publication avenues in good journals -
this has not reflected in last 10 years (since sci-hub was born), and (3)
mushrooming low quality journals as a result of sci-hub, and reduction in
the avenues for publishing.
May be this would be a good project for Vinit Kumar and his students to
prove this with numbers after providing linkages.

Regards,

Dr. Murari P. Tapaswi,
Phone/WhatsApp: 9763341967

On Wed, 23 Dec, 2020, 10:33 pm Vinit Kumar, <vinitbhu06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> https://thewire.in/law/sci-hub-elsevier-delhi-high-court-access-medical-literature-scientific-publishing-access-inequity
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