[LIS-Forum] The curious case of Sci-Hub.

[Vinit Kumar]

If you try to find answers to the questions raised by me in the previous
mail you will see it relates to the issue I raised in my first response.
See the last line of my initial response.

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 Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 7:57 AM Murari Tapaswi <tapaswimurari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think,Dr.Vinit Kumar is drifting from the issues that he initially
> raised.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dr. Murari P. Tapaswi,
> Phone/WhatsApp: 9763341967
>
> On Thu, 24 Dec, 2020, 10:35 pm Vinit Kumar, <vinitbhu06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The open access movement never demanded to have free access of research by
>> means of breaching copyright laws,  rather it acts as pressure group
>> focusing adaptation of release of research papers under open licenses,
>> however, some people term it as Guerilla Open access, which is not a right
>> term.
>>
>> I have several other questions:
>> What are the reasons that most of the university presses and academic
>> learned societies either ceased publishing academic journals or
>> transferred the management to academic publishers?
>>
>> Why still many authors(including developing countries) prefer to publish
>> in
>> paywalled journals despite knowing that they will have to pay to access
>> there own content when they have options to publish in open access
>> journals?
>> Why the funding for higher education is decreasing every year in spite of
>> an increasing number of enrolments?
>>   When public money can be spent on other futile reasons why not on access
>> to global research output?
>> Why successful national-level library consortium, such as UGC-INFONET was
>> halted that was providing legal access to scientific literature?
>> Why governments are not developing an equitable system that serves both
>> commercial publishers and access to academics and make these pirates of
>> no value?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 2:42 PM saleeq omar <omarsaleeq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The pathetic note by Vineet Kumar on the Sci-Hub is appalling. In
>> > countries where the scholarship is poorly funded or there are
>> > budgetary constraints every other day- to keep pace with the
>> phenomenally
>> > expensive demands of the publishers, Sci-Hub free access, no matter the
>> way
>> > it disseminates information, is perfectly reasonable. It is a step
>> closer
>> > to the democratization of information; free access to publicly funded
>> > research. The advocates of open access who otherwise should have
>> defended
>> > it are siding with the ones whose business is to trap knowledge behind
>> > paywalls. it deeply worries me about the future of research in countries
>> > like ours. The scholarship is being produced mainly by the universities
>> and
>> > is given to third parties for free, and then pay that party to access
>> our
>> > own research. There are these terrible problems that require an
>> > investigation, different perspectives to deal with them, but
>> unfortunately,
>> > we have people who cluelessly are endorsing the monopoly. In our
>> decadent
>> > library systems, that failed to give ubiquitous access to their
>> ostensible
>> > subscribed resources during the pandemic, it was Sci-Hub, that provided
>> > free and uninterrupted access to everyone in their comfort zones. The
>> only
>> > issue if there is any, is the issue of copyright, it is time for the
>> > policymakers to find alternative ways if they are unhappy with the
>> Sci-Hub,
>> > rather than banning it for good.
>> >
>> > Saleeq Omar -PhD.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Vinit Kumar, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor,
>> Department of Library and Information Science
>> Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University,
>> Rae Bareilly Road, Lucknow 226025
>> +919454120174
>> https://sites.google.com/view/vinitkumar
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