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Written by Georg Fischer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 on 2025-01-03 at 12:33

In a new paper, Alexandra Elbakyan (the founder of #SciHub) distinguishes between four different types of “Black Open Access”:

· classic shadow libraries, e.g. Library Genesis;

· online literature-sharing communities;

· automatic tools for paywall circumvention, e.g. Sci-Hub;

· academic social networks, e.g. Academia.edu / Researchgate

She also suggests a colour spectrum to acknowledge the significance of these open access models: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202409.0197/v2

[#]OpenAccess #ShadowLibraries

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2025-01-06 at 09:02

@georgfischer What on earth is the ordering here, that has Sci-Hub and LibGen at opposite poles?

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Written by Georg Fischer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 on 2025-01-06 at 11:57

@mike Why so annoyed? It's just one way of representing the various so-called "black" types of open access. Other representations are possible.

I don't know why she put it that way, but I doubt she wanted to have poles or opposites that exclude each other. For me it's more important to see the elements as a whole and the connections between them.

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2025-01-06 at 13:10

@georgfischer I'm not annoyed, I'm baffled.

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