From: Robin Sinn <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:13:02 +0000 Thanks, Jim. The original article in PeerJ is a great read and the authors have done the hard work of gathering and organizing data about millions of articles, DOIs, uses, etc. One question this raises is: Have the publishers been tracking these numbers all along? (probably) While publishers may see SciHub as a reason to move away from subscriptions, they’re already supplanting subscriptions with gold OA. So I don’t think that, as businesses, they’re in any danger. Free to read articles is an improvement, a step on the road. Robin ------------------------------------------------- Robin N Sinn Scholarly Communications Specialist Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 410-516-8346 [log in to unmask]