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
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