Access, ethics and piracy

Ownership of intellectual property rights for a large proportion of the scholarly record is held by publishers, so a majority of journal articles are behind paywalls and unavailable to most people. As a result some readers are encouraged to use pirate websites such as Sci-Hub to access them, a pract...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stuart Lawson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2017-03-01
Series:Insights: The UKSG Journal
Online Access:http://insights.uksg.org/articles/333