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"Note: The UC Libraries do not endorse using Sci-Hub for article access. Using Sci-Hub circumvents cumbersome publisher paywalls to access content illegally. Th

"Note: The UC Libraries do not endorse using Sci-Hub for article access. Using Sci-Hub circumvents cumbersome publisher paywalls to access content illegally. The Sci-Hub interface hosted at https://sci-hub.tw/ https://sci-hub.tw/ proxies requests and does not use login credentials, so access to research cannot be tracked the publishers in violation of copyright. The UC faculty and staff and the regents of the University of California would certainly not want students to directly access research papers for free by using Sci-Hub in this way. As there is no way to catch and punish students who use Sci-Hub to conveniently access research papers, we have made this public notice to inform the student body to not use Sci-Hub, not matter how convenient and accessible it might be. We repeat: do not use Sci-Hub, hosted at https://sci-hub.tw/ https://sci-hub.tw/, to freely download published research from any computer."

zaroth 7y ago
If this is hyperbole, please remove the quotes. If this is an actual quote, please cite it! Ether way it's hilarious, but it would help to be clear.
- grepthisab 7y ago
  I don't think they need to cite something that's literally in the text of the posted article. This is a comment section to comment on that very article!
  - scott_s 7y ago
    I don't think that's true - I can find the opening sentence in the submission, as well as in their FAQ and an interview, but not the rest of the paragraph, and in particular, not the implicit instructions for how to access Sci-Hub.
- brianzelip 7y ago
  Pretty sure it's hyperbole. Here's the page linked to from the OP, "Access to Elsevier Articles", that mentions (only) the first line in the quote above. [0] https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/alternative-access-to-articles/ https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/pub...

zaroth 7y ago

If this is hyperbole, please remove the quotes. If this is an actual quote, please cite it! Ether way it's hilarious, but it would help to be clear.

grepthisab 7y ago
I don't think they need to cite something that's literally in the text of the posted article. This is a comment section to comment on that very article!
- scott_s 7y ago
  I don't think that's true - I can find the opening sentence in the submission, as well as in their FAQ and an interview, but not the rest of the paragraph, and in particular, not the implicit instructions for how to access Sci-Hub.
brianzelip 7y ago
Pretty sure it's hyperbole. Here's the page linked to from the OP, "Access to Elsevier Articles", that mentions (only) the first line in the quote above. [0] https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/alternative-access-to-articles/ https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/pub...