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Sci-Hub has been praised by some in the scientific, academic, and publishing communities [11][12] for providing access to knowledge generated by the scientific community, which is usually funded by taxpayers (government grants) and with zero royalties paid to the authors. [13] Publishers have criticized it for violating copyright, [5][14] reducing the revenue of publishers, [15] and ...
Elbakyan justified Sci-Hub by saying that lack of universal access to academic knowledge violates Article 27 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that "everyone has the right freely to … share in scientific advancement and its benefits."
Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. [2][3] Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. [4]
The project's spokesperson and coordinator 'shrine' described the effort as a way for a "permanent library card for the world" and reported that the response has been "overwhelmingly positive from everyone". [26] In 2020, the project launched a peer-to-peer digital library of content on Sci-Hub and Library Genesis using IPFS. [27][28]
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [ 3 ] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural ...
List of open-access journals This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services.
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has expanded dramatically. [6][7]
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities. [ 1 ] Users need to account for ...