Ghee, whiz, whod'dathunkit that opening up access to papers would lead to more people having access to papers which they'd then use to write more papers in whic

Ghee, whiz, whod'dathunkit that opening up access to papers would lead to more people having access to papers which they'd then use to write more papers in which they cite those papers they read. Even if you have institutional or individual access to the likes of Wiley or Elsevier it is usually far easier to just feed the DOI to Sci-Hub and read the paper instead of jumping through all the hoops to get 'official' access. This goes doubly for those who, like me, use whitelists for cookies and block third-party content (including cookies) since it generally takes a few attempts to convince the paywall that you just logged in for the umpteenth time and can I now please read that paper please? Nope, thou shalt not pass! aw shucks, I'll just get the thing off Sci-Hub again.