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Elsevier made legal threats, claiming that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub was itself illegal. Yet Elsevier's own journals turn out to be full of links to Sci-Hub.
In 1942, the US Book Republication Program permitted American publishers to reprint "exact reproductions" of Germany's scientific texts without payment; seventy-five years later, the fate of this scientific knowledge forms the basis of a "natural experiment" analysed by Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser.
When researchers write, we don't just describe new findings - we place them in context by citing the work of others. Citations trace the lineage of ideas, connecting disparate lines of scholarship into a cohesive body of knowledge, and forming the basis of how we know what we know.
By day, "Olivia Doll" sits on the boards of seven academic journals; by night, she's a Staffordshire terrier named Ollie, owned by Mike Daube, a public health expert in Perth, Australia.
McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.
Over 60 major German research institutions are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.
One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.
