Who’s reading millions of stolen research papers on the outlaw website Sci-Hub? Now we know.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/04/28/whos-reading-millions-of-stolen-research-papers-on-the-outlaw-site-s
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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