From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:58:39 +0100

Judy

We agree.

I am a faculty member and have access to an excellent library which has
almost everything I want.

However working from home I have to log in to the library. Unlike Roger
Schonfeld I have no difficulty doing that. Then I have to go through first
to the journal and only then to the article I need.

It would be much easier for me to go to SciHub though actually I do not
usually work using DOIs. I have not been tempted. Nor do almost any of the
Early Career Researchers I am interviewing. They start characteristically
with Google Scholar and then usually go into the library system

I have now read your Scholarly Kitchen posting. I had ignored it because I
had assumed it was about discovery, which was careless of me. I still do
not see the answer.

There is lots of scholarly content which will never be open access so the
problem will not go away

Anthony

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From: JLuther <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:22:46 +0000

Hi Anthony,

It's not all that easy to click on a DOI and have access as a student or
faculty member if you're not signed onto the campus network.  The very
example you mention, if you're sent a DOI in an email, you have to first be
signed onto the campus network to have access.

Todd Carpenter (NISO) and I have a post in the Scholarly Kitchen today
on that very topic that is titled Failure to Deliver.   It's a problem
highlighted in an examination of SciHub data that is pretty much off the
radar of most academic librarians and publishers - but important to both.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/06/15/failure-to-deliver/

Judy

Judy Luther  MLS, MBA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:49:21 +0100

I am glad to see that Colin is about still. Hi Colin.  I am always
intrigued by comments like this one (not his):

"By looking into how and where Sci-Hub is used it becomes clear that
barriers to access to scholarly publications remain a real issue, one that
is affecting a diverse group of actors in many different ways.

And thanks to a so-far unbroken oligopoly in academic publishing, with a
small set of commercial actors dominating the market and setting the terms
to access, this is unlikely to change very soon. Thus, issues of legality
aside, Sci-Hub remains a strong route to education for researchers from
states suffering from international embargoes or economic hardship just as
it is for individuals outside academic institutions everywhere else in the
world"

It fascinates me that the American Chemical Society, a representative body
if ever there was one, is included in the heavily weighted phrase "a small
group of commercial actors" and it makes me wonder from the start how
rational this analysis is.
What interests me because my perspective is different is the number of
users of SciHub who already have access: if you work by clicking on a DOI
as many do what could be easier to reach full text. Certainly easier than
using the library you have access to.

Anthony