In rich and poor countries researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website (28 April 2016) Science has published an article by John Bohannon which quantifies the use of Sci-Hub, the go-to website for pirated scientific papers. He explores the cost of document delivery from legitimate services and why researchers turn to the free and copyright-busting alternatives.…
(18 October 2013) Two weeks ago today DOAJ published an initial response to the John Bohannon ‘sting’ article published in Science Magazine. (See here). The response came a day after the article’s embargo broke, while Twitter, blogs and news sites were excitedly discussing the article’s implications, the shortcomings of its methodology and the failings. Now…
John Bohannon reports on a spoof paper concocted by Science which had little or no scrutiny at many open access journals. Read the worrying but entertaining story here. It appears in Science 4 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65
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