Librarian here. I will reply with a quote from my favorite giant website of information: [citation needed]
We are warning universities & students about Sci Hub, a series of websites that allows illegal access to millions of research papers.
Sci-Hub obtains the papers through malicious means such as phishing emails to trick users into divulging their logins
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Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to go check it out..
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sounds like an interesting site thanks for the heads up
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er.. are you sure? All work by publicly funded universities, regardless of any external partnerships, should be
#openaccess This tweet sounds like you're doing the bidding of the old-style publishers protecting their outdated business model.#opensource#openscience -
here's an example of THEFT
@oxunipress and@LondMathSoc are keeping this 1913 paper behind a paywall - a paper that's over 100 years old that is THEFT from the publichttps://twitter.com/rzeta0/status/1372353778100404224 …
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I’m wondering what the exact link we should watch out for is? I would hate for a child to click on it and get access to information
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The link is: https://sci-hub.do/ There's absolutely no evidence of credentials being stolen, but I'm positive that the police are never wrong. Definitely don't click it, free access to information is bad because capitalism is good. /s
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malicious (adj) -- having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone lol
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Have you got an example of one of these emails that you know beyond reasonable doubt has been directly used by sci hub to gain access to journal articles? How many people have you contacted to let them know their credentials have been stolen? I can submit an FoI if you like.
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It doesn't happen because it doesn't need to. Students and staff donate their logins. Sci-Hub has absolutely no need to try to obtain logins by deception.
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