What's the marginal impact of making papers/books freely available?
and colleagues found that Sci-hub download numbers predict downstream citation counts. Hard to establish causation (is this just a popularity measure?)—but very interesting!
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(I appreciate the extreme irony of how this paper is presented on the web—oh, Springer…)
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Seems like we have found a stable system. Publishers get money from institutions, while Sci-Hub still allows individuals to access research for free. Definitely a bandaid solution, but it kind of... works.
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A colleague from France, also proposed another interesting vision. They called it: bibliogifts. asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100 I think it is important to discuss the right to have access to scientific knowledge, just as Irwin Louis Horowitz claimed it in 1986
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