-Sci-Hub has made nearly all articles freely available using a black open access model, leaving green and gold models in its dust.
“What I find startling is not that a room full of UKSG delegates seem to be condoning piracy and supporting black open access (Björk, 2017), but 15 years on from the Budapest Open Access Declaration, a pirate site is needed at all. After all, the pirates have long since been chased out of the music business”
-Sci-Hub has made nearly all articles freely available using a black open access model, leaving green and gold models in its dust.
“What I find startling is not that a room full of UKSG delegates seem to be condoning piracy and supporting black open access (Björk, 2017), but 15 years on from the Budapest Open Access Declaration, a pirate site is needed at all. After all, the pirates have long since been chased out of the music business”