From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:19:28 -0500

For the record, SciHub does far more than provide "free access to
costly scholarly journals that libraries often buy." It also provides
access to journals that are not costly and it provides access to books
published by not-for-profit university presses, which are typically
subsidized by their parent institutions. It builds its database by
having users violate agreements for access with their institutions;
these credentials are then shared with SciHub. Talking about SciHub as
though it were Robin Hood is fatuous.

Joe Esposito

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:36 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Richard Feinman <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:01:46 -0500
>
> Authors' movement? Reviewers' movement? Librarians' movement?
> Authors' union? Reviewers' union? Librarians' union? Stopping a system
> of taking authors work, not paying reviewers and taking funds from
> users, authors, libraries for a minimal service. On second thought,
> who wants to start a publishing company? Maybe a joke or maybe we need
> author cooperatives.
>
> RDF
>
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> Richard David Feinman
> Professor of Cell Biology
> SUNY Downstate Medical Center