Can some body explain this in simpler terms? Thanks Medium: Science, open access… and Sci-Hub
<https://medium.com/enrique-dans/science-open-access-and-sci-hub-1f6b49540441>. "As with the content industry, the important thing is not whether a site is open access or not: what matters is to challenge outdated business models. Content publishers began to have problems when technology developed better and more efficient ways of accessing material and they began to stop having them when a wide range of simple and relatively inexpensive ways to access content appeared: Spotify, Netflix or whatever. There is no reason why the same dynamics should not apply to academia, and that the hundreds of journals that feed off scholars and institutions with high-priced subscriptions will find ways to disseminate scientific material that match their need for a reasonable level of profitability, while making science readily available to all."
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May I try sir (without going into the legalities of Dark Open Access)? Scope of the term: Dark Open Access (DOA) comprises an array of services which do not think about licenses and legalities (like mainstream OA that mainly includes Green and Gold paths). Major DOA services are - sci-hub (harvesting and archiving papers published in pay wall journals with the help of academic volunteers distributed in almost all countries of the world), academic.edu and Research Gate (where authors archive their own papers pre/post/exact published versions without bothering licenses like CC). Reasons for popularity: 1) Easy access to pay walled journal papers immediately (which are generally not available in mainstream OA due to various Embargo policies); 2) It is very useful for the researchers in developing block of the world like ours for obvious reason that we don't have a good journal access system; 3) Most of the commercial journal portals arch are single-publisher platform and thereby creating problems to access cited articles that are published by different other publishers; 4) In many access people log into sciencedirect and finds that a handful of cited articles as given in the article under study are simply not subscribed by the library or library consortia (of which they are members); they take a note of DOI and open a sci-hub tab in the browser to access the target paper (even without registering and sometimes by entering a captcha code); 5) Cross-publisher commercial portals are very costly and that too not comprehensively cover domain-specific journals. I have a preliminary study on access to sci-hub in India and found that 34 millions papers downloaded from India (next only to China) within the period from Sept 2015 to Feb 2016, the sci-hub.cc site rank is 3227 in the country (quite commendable) and sci-hub is much popular (traffic wise) in compare with legal e-journal access (like major library consortia) or mainstream OA (like DOAJ, OpenDOAR, BASE etc). You may have a look on this report presented in the last SIS 2017 conference @IICB, CSIR, Kolkata. https://www.academia.edu/33946759/Library_Discovery_System_Designing_One_Sto... Regards On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy < vyasamoorthy@gmail.com> wrote:
Can some body explain this in simpler terms? Thanks
<https://medium.com/enrique-dans/science-open-access-and- sci-hub-1f6b49540441>. "As with the content industry, the important thing is not whether a site is open access or not: what matters is to challenge outdated business models. Content publishers began to have problems when technology developed better and more efficient ways of accessing material and they began to stop having them when a wide range of simple and relatively inexpensive ways to access content appeared: Spotify, Netflix or whatever. There is no reason why
Medium: Science, open access… and Sci-Hub the
same dynamics should not apply to academia, and that the hundreds of journals that feed off scholars and institutions with high-priced subscriptions will find ways to disseminate scientific material that match their need for a reasonable level of profitability, while making science readily available to all."
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I understood what you wrote on DOA. I have accounts in ReseachGate and Acdemia myself. But what is this reference to Netflix and other business models mentioned that are likely to solve the problem? This is what I could not understand. Dr P Vyasamoorthy 040-27846631 / 09490804278 On 9 September 2017 at 17:13, P. S. Mukhopadhyay <psmukhopadhyay@gmail.com> wrote:
May I try sir (without going into the legalities of Dark Open Access)?
Scope of the term:
Dark Open Access (DOA) comprises an array of services which do not think about licenses and legalities (like mainstream OA that mainly includes Green and Gold paths). Major DOA services are - sci-hub (harvesting and archiving papers published in pay wall journals with the help of academic volunteers distributed in almost all countries of the world), academic.edu and Research Gate (where authors archive their own papers pre/post/exact published versions without bothering licenses like CC).
Reasons for popularity:
1) Easy access to pay walled journal papers immediately (which are generally not available in mainstream OA due to various Embargo policies);
2) It is very useful for the researchers in developing block of the world like ours for obvious reason that we don't have a good journal access system;
3) Most of the commercial journal portals arch are single-publisher platform and thereby creating problems to access cited articles that are published by different other publishers;
4) In many access people log into sciencedirect and finds that a handful of cited articles as given in the article under study are simply not subscribed by the library or library consortia (of which they are members); they take a note of DOI and open a sci-hub tab in the browser to access the target paper (even without registering and sometimes by entering a captcha code);
5) Cross-publisher commercial portals are very costly and that too not comprehensively cover domain-specific journals.
I have a preliminary study on access to sci-hub in India and found that 34 millions papers downloaded from India (next only to China) within the period from Sept 2015 to Feb 2016, the sci-hub.cc site rank is 3227 in the country (quite commendable) and sci-hub is much popular (traffic wise) in compare with legal e-journal access (like major library consortia) or mainstream OA (like DOAJ, OpenDOAR, BASE etc).
You may have a look on this report presented in the last SIS 2017 conference @IICB, CSIR, Kolkata.
https://www.academia.edu/33946759/Library_Discovery_System_Designing_One_Sto...
Regards
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy@gmail.com> wrote:
Can some body explain this in simpler terms? Thanks
Medium: Science, open access… and Sci-Hub
<https://medium.com/enrique-dans/science-open-access-and-sci-hub-1f6b49540441>. "As with the content industry, the important thing is not whether a site is open access or not: what matters is to challenge outdated business models. Content publishers began to have problems when technology developed better and more efficient ways of accessing material and they began to stop having them when a wide range of simple and relatively inexpensive ways to access content appeared: Spotify, Netflix or whatever. There is no reason why the same dynamics should not apply to academia, and that the hundreds of journals that feed off scholars and institutions with high-priced subscriptions will find ways to disseminate scientific material that match their need for a reasonable level of profitability, while making science readily available to all."
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