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Signal, Not Solution: Notes on Why Sci-Hub Is Not Opening Access
- return0 11y agoI use sci-hub all the time, because my institution has a limited library. The entire argument here is a red herring. Sci-hub is a solution that complements open access, for the transitory period after which we expect big publishers to die off. Of course it's illegal, just like it is immoral for scientists around the world to use their taxpayer's money and their time to pay three big publishers, NPG, elsevier and spiegel. This is pure civil disobedience of the noble kind.