Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by ericjang on Friday April 29, 2016 @12:30AM
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Does this suggest that publishing companies like Reed Elsevier plc (RELX group) will eventually be starved of revenue from papers? Or have they figured out an alternative business model to adapt to the changing times?
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Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by isido on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:55AM
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Publishers probably cannot keep up with the current revenue levels, especially since the university library funding is constantly decreasing.
And besides Scihub, there are emerging institutional solutions to this problem, like research funders demanding that research paid with public funds must be publicly available, and universities setting up academic repositories where papers published elsewhere are available in open access form.