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Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subsc... by Brakenshire on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#17912213)
SciHub started long after the move towards open access was underway. The campaign, and ongoing incremental steps by funding agencies, has been going on for 15 years.
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Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subsc... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:54PM (#17912252)
Yes, and SciHub single-handedly achieved more for the cause that all those other efforts did for the past 20 years. People working on those efforts admit it:

http://sci-hub.tw/http://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1116

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