> I'm deeply ashamed that my country would block sci-hub given that the current system is preventing scientific development. Are you in France? In that case y

> I'm deeply ashamed that my country would block sci-hub given that the current system is preventing scientific development. Are you in France? In that case you'll find that french academic librarians are extremely open to this stuff. I have participated in some proposals to cancel all elsevier+other library subscriptions and give all that money directly to SciHub, and the librarians were always very receptive to the idea. Unfortunately, this sort of initiative inevitably gets stuck in the upper echelons of some administrative procedure and never materializes. I guess predatory editors have a deeply entrenched influence within the academic institutions, otherwise I don't understand how that happens...