From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:16:53 -0400

I am not sure how I feel about these issues or how to think about
them. Culturally and personally I am very much in Lisa's camp, but the
pragmatist in me is not so sure.

First, though, let me be clear that I am not trying to defend anything
the STM Association or anyone else is doing or not doing with regard
to SciHub. That's a commercial issue, but Lisa is getting at something
more important.

What perplexes me is how to influence discussion without entering the
discussion. If one's opening and foundational position is "no
compromise to privacy," strong forces, political as well as
commercial, will simply not engage you in conversation. Is the more
prudent role, if less satisfying philosophically, to soften the tone
and role up one's sleeves?

I have written about this elsewhere:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/06/23/libraries-may-have-gotten-the-privacy-thing-all-wrong/

I am truly perplexed by this entire issue and how to move it forward.

Joe Esposito


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:52:17 +0000
>
> To the degree that SciHub is caused by "difficulty" in accessing
> licensed resources, systems to make it easier are all likely to try
> and address it. But, at this point, it seems unlikely that anything is
> going to be frictionless enough to overcome the simplicity of SciHub
> as long as users persist in feeling no ethical problems in using the
> site.  So, while that may be part of the discussion, I think the real
> benefit to the publisher platforms of the RA21 proposal is in the
> detailed analytics it will produce. With such a system, every user
> will be known as an individual to the platform - not just "faculty
> member from XYZ institution" but rather "this specific faculty member
> from XYZ institution."  The privacy implications of this are enormous
> and troubling from the perspective of the ethics of librarianship.
>
> --
> Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
> Professor/ Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
> University Library, University of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive,
> Urbana, Illinois 61801
> [log in to unmask], 217-333-1323 (v), 217-244-4358 (f)
>
> ________________________________________
>
> From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:37:30 -0400
>
> A colleague pointed us to this STM-led initiative:
>
> http://www.stm-assoc.org/standards-technology/ra21-resource-access-21st-century/
>
> And I found the recent presentation given at a recent CNI meeting:
>
> https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CNI_Resources_Shillum.pdf
>
> The project is positively explained in the above sources.  Basically,
> it's an effort to move away from IP authentication to more
> sophisticated methods, which might help the user and also improve
> publisher controls vis a vis published content.  Perhaps it might
> reduce the SciHub (and like) problem?
>
> I'd be interested in liblicense-l list members' comments on the pros
> and cons of such an initiative and approach.  It would be most useful,
> as this seems very important, and I'm guessing many of us feel
> under-informed at this early stage.
>
> Anyone on this list part of the pilots?
>
> Thank you, Ann Okerson