From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:22:14 -0700

Seen on Jim Neal's Facebook page, this link outlines a complicated and inevitably controversial idea about controlling the use of intellectual property licensed to libraries.  The discussion inevitably becomes one of whether and how to push back against SciHub, complicated by concerns over privacy and academic freedom.  

I find this interesting because SciHub has always claimed that they use "borrowed" legitimate credentials to access and download for redistribution articles from research libraries.  Has there ever been confirmation that this is in fact the practice they use?  Nothing about SciHub's self-representations seems credible enough to take at face value.  But if that practice is not in fact a problem or not widespread then this proposal would lose some of its usefulness.  

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/spyware-in-libraries/?fbclid=IwAR0A6x0o4O1R6EES-dK0TdqFpii2V3Rmu4oe_pKFx7PyLQTnBHxUES9nMCw

Jim O'Donnell
ASU