Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

DS Himmelstein, AR Romero, JG Levernier, TA Munro… - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles,
including many articles that are paywalled at their journal's site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly …

“Through the looking glass: envisioning new library technologies” how artificial intelligence will impact libraries

P Fernandez - Library Hi Tech News, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose This is the second of a two-part series on artificial intelligence (AI). The first column
summarized some of the basic concepts necessary to understand AI and why recent …

[HTML][HTML] A journal cancellation survey and resulting impact on interlibrary loan

JL Nash, KR McElfresh - Journal of the Medical Library Association …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective The research describes an extensible method of evaluating and cancelling
electronic journals during a budget shortfall and evaluates implications for interlibrary loan …

The Case for Context in Journal Evaluations

P Cipkowski, K Fish - Serials Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract When University of Wisconsin–La Crosse was faced with a pandemic-related 20%
reduction to the library's collections budget two months into the 2021 fiscal year, it meant …

Pirated Manuscripts From Radiology's Most Impactful Journals: An International Analysis of Copyright-Infringing Downloads

G Sadigh, A Jalilvand, K Singh, R Duszak Jr - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives The world's largest scholarly literature pirate website, Sci-Hub, permits readers to
bypass journal paywalls, thus facilitating no-cost copyright-infringing article downloads. We …

How librarians make decisions: the interplay of subjective and quantitative factors in the cancellation of Big Deals

CA Johnson, S Cassady - Collection and Curation, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the decision-making process of librarians
at the University of Western Ontario who attempted to cancel the Wiley Big Deal. The aim of …

[PDF][PDF] Finding the Silver Lining… in the Serials Budget Crises

MB Robertshaw, MW Hooper, KG Doll - Against the Grain, 2017 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
Most readers are familiar with (and indeed weary of) the long-running serials crisis: budgets
have stagnated as the cost of serials for STEM disciplines continues to rise (Bosch & …

[HTML][HTML] Search Aggiornamenti in Medicina

DS Himmelstein, AR Romero, JG Levernier, TA Munro… - aggiornamentimedicina.it
Abstract Il sito web Sci-Hub consente agli utenti di scaricare le versioni in PDF degli articoli
scientifici, compresi molti articoli che sono protetti da paywalled sul sito del loro giornale. Sci …

A Service Support for Selection of E-Journal Subscription: An Evidence-Based Practice.

RM Rohani, MK Aspura… - Pakistan Journal of …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
The selection of an e-journal title is one of the challenging tasks for librarians in the process
of collection development. As libraries receive a limited budget, librarians need to be careful …