Citationsy on Twitter: "10/12 I have of course taken down any links to Sci-Hub on https://t.co/fc59k0L7SB. @ElsevierLabs obviously thinks making money is more important than furthering science. Congratulations, @twobirds! We all now that the only thing this will achieve is less people reading papers."

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

1/12 So something not-fantastic happened yesterday. I received an email from a lawyer at @twobirds, @moniquewadsted, on behalf of @ElsevierConnect regarding my blog post about where to download research papers and scientific articles for free.https://citationsy.com/blog/download-research-papers-scientific-articles-free-scihub/ …

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

2/12 The blog post contains a link to Sci-Hub. They think that “posting hyperlinks” to work that they believe is protected by copyright is a “communication to the public” and thus illegal. Is this true? I don’t know. It doesn’t smell true to me.

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

3/12 You can also easily do a Google search for “Sci-Hub” and find the site, so is Google not also linking to Sci-Hub? Wikipedia also links to Sci-Hub (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub ). Is this not the same thing, @twobirds?

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

4/12 Wether they are right or not is pretty much a moot point though, since @ElsevierConnect has many more lawyers than I do (0) and could crush me at any moment if they wanted to.

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

5/12 They haven’t been able to get Sci-Hub shut down so they’re trying to stop anyone from linking to them, which is ridiculous.

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

6/12 Why you trying to stop students, researchers, and academics from reading papers, @ElsevierConnect? Is it that you think only students at universities that can afford an Elsevier subscription should have access to knowledge?

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

7/12 The University of California recently dropped their Elsevier subscription, which was costing them 10 Million USD / year. (source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/1/18245235/university-of-california-elsevier-subscription-open-access …). Yep, TEN MILLION DOLLARS, none of which goes to the paper’s authors.

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

8/12 So why is @ElsevierConnect sending their pack of highly paid lawyers, @twobirds, to attack me? Is it because they love science so much? Is this “Empowering Knowledge™“, @ElsevierConnect?

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

9/12 BTW, @ElsevierConnect owns one of Citationsy’s competitors, the very mediocre @mendeley_com. Does this have anything to do with their attack on me? They know they could bankrupt me without breaking a sweat. Is that a good thing?

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Citationsy‏ @Citationsy 31 Jul 2019

10/12 I have of course taken down any links to Sci-Hub on http://Citationsy.com . @ElsevierLabs obviously thinks making money is more important than furthering science. Congratulations, @twobirds! We all now that the only thing this will achieve is less people reading papers.