Next Week – CLRC Hosts Evening Discussion Group

CLRC is excited to announce our inaugural monthly professional discussion group. Once a month, colleagues will meet in the evening to talk about a topic that is trending within the field or otherwise having an impact on the profession.

This month’s topic will be Sci-Hub

Wednesday, May 18th
6:00 to 8:00 pm

Held at the CLRC Offices
6493 Ridings Road
Syracuse, NY 13206

RSVP: https://rbshost.com/CLRC/events/scihub-discussion-5-16/

Our first meeting will be a discussion of Sci-Hub, the disruptive (and controversial) scholarship database.
Topics are likely to include:
* Copyright
* Open Access
* Publishing
* Scholarly Communication
* Ethics
* Discovery
* Licensing

Here are some articles to get you started.
All are very interesting pieces of the picture, some overlapping or cross-referential.

* http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/04/28/whos-reading-millions-of-stolen-research-papers-on-the-outlaw-site-sci-hub-now-we-know/

* http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/alexandra-elbakyan-founded-sci-hub-thwart-journal-paywalls?utm_content=bufferf2466&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

* http://www.nature.com/news/paper-piracy-sparks-online-debate-1.19841

* http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2016/04/29/whos-to-blame-for-sci-hub-librarians-of-course/

Interested in taking a deeper dive into the data? Check out the (very, very large) full-use dataset here:
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c