The Harbinger project was a 3‐year‐long international study of the changing attitudes and
behaviours of early career researchers (ECRs). One of the aims of the project was to …

Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online.
Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more …

Scholars have shared copyrighted material outside official channels for decades, but recent
market forces, professional pressure, and novel technical exploits have allowed the large …

The scientific knowledge is disseminated by research papers. Most of the research literature
is copyrighted by publishers and available only through paywalls. Recently, some websites …

This study examines data on the worldwide use of the shadow library website Sci‐Hub. It
focuses particularly on the discipline of development studies, taking a critical look at current …

Introduction. High subscription fees to scholarly research journals provoke researchers to
use illegal channels of access to scientific information. Analysis of statistical data on …

Approximately 4.4 million articles downloaded by Chinese researchers were identified
based on downloads of 28 million articles from September 1, 2015, to February 29, 2016 …

On the basis of the 28 million downloaded articles posted by J. Bohannon and A. Elbakyan
on the Internet on the Sci-Hub resource for the period from September 1, 2015 to February …

I argue that the impact of piracy engines for scholarly content on science depends on the
nature of the research. Social sciences are more likely to reap benefits from such engines …

Materials and Methods: using open statistics on the Sci-Hub website, we extracted the
dataset referred to the Russian Federation. We obtained the data on the downloaded …