Looking into Pandora's Box: The Content of Sci-Hub and its Usage [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Despite the growth of Open Access, potentially illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phenomenon. The web service Sci-Hub is amongst the biggest facilitators of this, offering free access to around 62 million publications. So far it is not wel...

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Main Author: Bastian Greshake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2017-04-01
Series:F1000Research
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Online Access:https://f1000research.com/articles/6-541/v1