From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:47:02 -0500 On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > "...researchers [have] been forced into a system of workarounds to try to get access to the articles that they need to do their research." > > So, when a scientist/scholar could go to an eprints site... And publisher embargoes, and tergiversation, and intimidation? > or library doc delivery/ILL services, or ask colleagues for copies... In the instant click-through era, research and researchers should still be forced to wait days for each click? > Do we as librarians really believe that large-scale copyright > infringement is a good thing, that it's right, and a means to a better > future? Sci-hub is neither a library nor in a library. It is not a librarian matter. And the "better future" has been embargoed quite long enough. What it would be helpful if librarians did -- they have not done so yet in any number -- is to see to it that the Copy-Request Button <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/> is implemented in their institutional eprint repository. That would reduce the wait for a click from days to only hours or even minutes (and would moot or temper the need for "large-scale copyright infringement...") Stevan Harnad