No doubt that would be interesting to investigate. On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 2:18 PM Murari Tapaswi <tapaswimurari@gmail.com> wrote:
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@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@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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