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 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 1:28 PM madhan muthu <mu.madhan@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-lite...
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