This is just a hit piece on Sci-Hub. > bulk theft of intellectual property from academic institutions Is a most apt description of scientific publishing, but

This is just a hit piece on Sci-Hub. > bulk theft of intellectual property from academic institutions Is a most apt description of scientific publishing, but is instead being applied to Sci-Hub. It recommends libraries block access to it, on spurious technical grounds, but never stops to wonder why people would be accessing it even from within university libraries. I imagine it might be because sci-hub has a better selection of academic content. Content that is produced, reviewed, and curated for free by academics, then appropriated by publishers due to their historical usefulness. I imagine it also has a nicer interface than most publishers' websites, which generally do not set a high bar. What librarians should be doing is lobbying to stop free peer reviewing for paid journals and then unsubscribing from them as the dry up. Academic publishing is a racket. Also, if you were caught, erm, donating content to Sci-Hub, you might lie and say your password was stolen...