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

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Cook, Eleanor I.; Levine-Clark, Michael; Katz, Peter
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Piracy of subscription-based scholarly literature has reached a new peak with the advent of Sci-Hub and other sites like it. Sci-Hub is a collection of over 68 million items led by and compiled by a researcher from Kazakhstan. This interview was conducted to gain insights from an academic library director, Michael Levine-Clark, who with other colleagues is doing research on how scholars discover and access research materials. Peter Katz, who works for Elsevier, discusses what Sci-Hub means for him as someone responsible for identifying and blocking activity that sets off alerts in their usage system indicating that the activity may be being undertaken by unauthorized users. These two individuals provide thoughtful observations about what Sci-Hub may mean for the future of article discovery in academic libraries and how Open Access models will impact and influence the dynamic between pirated materials and those found behind a paywall.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6424
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Academic libraries; illegal downloading; Sci-Hub
Date
2017-10-27
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Cook, Eleanor I., & Levine-Clark, Michael, & Katz, Peter. (October 2017). Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz. , (), - Clark & Peter Katz (2017) Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz, The Serials Librarian, 73:2, 79-83, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2017.1361886. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6424

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Cook, Eleanor I., and Levine-Clark, Michael, and Katz, Peter. "Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz". . . (), October 2017. September 23, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6424.
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Cook, Eleanor I. and Levine-Clark, Michael and Katz, Peter, "Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz," , no. (October 2017), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6424 (accessed September 23, 2023).
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Cook, Eleanor I., Levine-Clark, Michael, Katz, Peter. Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz. . October 2017; (): . http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6424. Accessed September 23, 2023.
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