From: "Maher, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:23:06 +0000

To Ivy's comment - "Publishers are paid for subscriptions, users have
access via Sci-Hub, and everyone is happy."

        ...unless (until) institutions, academic or other, leverage
SciHub to decide on renewals and acquisitions.

        At what point do peer2peer networks like Sci-Hub affect
Promotions & Tenure and faculty decisions to sit on peer-review and
editorial   boards?

To Kalev's comment - "[...]one of the most striking things to me about
that Science piece is just how heavily Sci-Hub is apparently being
used at Western academic institutions [...] That to me stands
testament to just how awful current academic library journal
subscription search systems are."

        ...what is it about Sci-Hub's discovery layer that's so much
better? Are individuals going to Sci-Hub to browse for content or do
they already  know what they are looking for?

        I agree, communication between publishers and integrated
library system companies/consortiums stand to improve. The status quo
may not have birthed Sci-Hub but it has nurtured it.


Stephen Maher, MSIS
NYU Health Sciences Library