Who’s reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub ? Now we know.

Who’s reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub? Now we know.
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The map at the top of the story shows massive use in India, Iran, Russia and China, supporting Elbakyan’s view that researchers in developing or politically fractured countries — as was hers, growing up in Kazakhstan — are hungry to tap into the world’s knowledge.

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Using data provided by Elbakyan, writer John Bohannon shows that Sci-Hub is being used frequently and widely around the world, not just in developing countries unable to afford expensive journal subscriptions, but in Silicon Valley, the Washington, D.C., region, and near major research universities.

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Who’s reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub ? Now we know. - The Washington Post
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Très intéressante carte des téléchargements d’articles scientifiques sur le site « pirate » Sci-Hub : les pays en développement sont très présents, mais il y a aussi des téléchargements depuis les pays riches (mais contrairement à ce que dit l’article, qui laisse penser que des universitaires fraudent par flemme, je pense que cela témoigne de l’appétence d’un public plus large qu’on ne croit pour les travaux scientifiques)

The map at the top of the story shows massive use in India, Iran, Russia and China, supporting Elbakyan’s view that researchers in developing or politically fractured countries — as was hers, growing up in Kazakhstan — are hungry to tap into the world’s knowledge.

But the map below shows heavy use around the United States, too. Bohannon writes that a “quarter of the Sci-Hub requests for papers came from the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the wealthiest nations with, supposedly, the best journal access. In fact, some of the most intense use of Sci-Hub appears to be happening on the campuses of U.S. and European universities.”

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