Feb
27
Sci-Hub: a sign on the wall, but not a new sign
It is hard to have missed Sci-Hub, as it even showed up in the Dutch Volkskrant. It is now sharing PDFs of many closed and open access papers (yes, there are plenty of OA PDFs shared). Opinions about it vary, but it is important to realize that it violates, for the closed access papers, social agreements made between scientists and publishers. There are valid arguments but also FUD, e.g. by the Association of American Publishers (AAP; some publishers, surely) that writes that "publishers work to ensure that their publications create an accurate and correct scientific record, (i.e., publishing revisions to correct or update data)".
