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I located this interesting news about sci-hub where almost all research papers are available for free download in http://paper.li/esukhdev/1309342686 http://paper.li/esukhdev/1309342686 "Sukhdev's daily information dose". If many librarians start using this source will article requests in lis-forum come down drastically? =============== Researcher illegally shares millions (45 m) of science papers free online to spread knowledge . Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science. FIONA MACDONALD 12 FEB 2016 106.1k A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science. http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-jo... URL for sc-hub http://sci-hub.io/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.