From: "Maher, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:23:06 +0000 To Ivy's comment - "Publishers are paid for subscriptions, users have access via Sci-Hub, and everyone is happy." ...unless (until) institutions, academic or other, leverage SciHub to decide on renewals and acquisitions. At what point do peer2peer networks like Sci-Hub affect Promotions & Tenure and faculty decisions to sit on peer-review and editorial boards? To Kalev's comment - "[...]one of the most striking things to me about that Science piece is just how heavily Sci-Hub is apparently being used at Western academic institutions [...] That to me stands testament to just how awful current academic library journal subscription search systems are." ...what is it about Sci-Hub's discovery layer that's so much better? Are individuals going to Sci-Hub to browse for content or do they already know what they are looking for? I agree, communication between publishers and integrated library system companies/consortiums stand to improve. The status quo may not have birthed Sci-Hub but it has nurtured it. Stephen Maher, MSIS NYU Health Sciences Library