Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz?

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Eleanor I. Cook (Creator)

Peter Katz (Creator)

Michael Levine-Clark (Creator)

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East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Abstract: Piracy of subscription-based scholarly literature has reached a new peak\r\nwith the advent of Sci-Hub and other sites like it. Sci-Hub is a collection of\r\nover 68 million items led by and compiled by a researcher from Kazakhstan.\r\nThis interview was conducted to gain insights from an academic library\r\ndirector, Michael Levine-Clark, who with other colleagues is doing research\r\non how scholars discover and access research materials. Peter Katz, who\r\nworks for Elsevier, discusses what Sci-Hub means for him as someone\r\nresponsible for identifying and blocking activity that sets off alerts in their\r\nusage system indicating that the activity may be being undertaken by\r\nunauthorized users. These two individuals provide thoughtful observations\r\nabout what Sci-Hub may mean for the future of article discovery in academic\r\nlibraries and how Open Access models will impact and influence the\r\ndynamic between pirated materials and those found behind a paywall.

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Eleanor I. Cook, Michael Levine-Clark & Peter Katz (2017) Sci-Hub: What Is It,\r\nand Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter\r\nKatz, The Serials Librarian, 73:2, 79-83, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2017.1361886

Language: English

Date: 2023

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Academic libraries\; illegal downloading\; Sci-Hub

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