The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?
David Nicholas, LSE Impact Blog, 2019/02/21
The author is not a Sci-Hub fan (calling its appeal "ideological" and its business model " a pure and unashamed ‘pirate’", but he does accurately capture the value of Sci-Hub vis-a-vis other reserach article sharing sites such as ResearchGate. "Sci-Hub’s attraction, unlike RG’s, is not its social media features (it has none), but that it offers free and relatively easy access to millions of papers harvested (illegally) from publishers’ websites". More...