Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:58:39 +0100
Judy
We agree.
I am a faculty member and have access to an excellent library which has almost everything I want.
However working from home I have to log in to the library. Unlike Roger Schonfeld I have no difficulty doing that. Then I have to go through first to the journal and only then to the article I need.
It would be much easier for me to go to SciHub though actually I do not usually work using DOIs. I have not been tempted. Nor do almost any of the Early Career Researchers I am interviewing. They start characteristically with Google Scholar and then usually go into the library system
I have now read your Scholarly Kitchen posting. I had ignored it because I had assumed it was about discovery, which was careless of me. I still do not see the answer.
There is lots of scholarly content which will never be open access so the problem will not go away
Anthony
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From: JLuther <
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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
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From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]com>
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