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The ultimate strike is still in the making - if you work on university on a paper and cite another paper- and that university has not subscription to the origin
by Pica_soO 8y ago
The ultimate strike is still in the making - if you work on university on a paper and cite another paper- and that university has not subscription to the original publication- then its only some crooked steps towards implicating unreachable sources as pirated.
- riscy 8y agoPlenty of people cite papers they haven’t read, or are not available digitally. They often cite it because some other paper does, or they only read the abstract.
- btrettel 8y agoMost universities have interlibrary loan departments to obtain items outside of the university's holdings. This route would be slower, but it is legal and I suspect a publisher would have a hard time proving in court that someone downloaded an article on Sci-Hub rather than used their interlibrary loan service. Maybe they could get the interlibrary loan request records and check that, but I do not suspect libraries would hand those records out without good reason. And I think that is far more effort than your average publisher would be willing to put in. Plus, as the other commenter said, citing a paper unfortunately does not mean that someone has a copy of it.