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