AAP Statement on Sci-Hub

AAP Statement on Sci-Hub Given the site’s reemergence, it is important to remind the community that Sci-Hub is a pirate organization involved in the mass theft of copyrighted material. It should not be equated with any legitimate open access publishing practices, and its efforts have nothing to do with the real innovation going on in publishing to advance access to published material. In October 2015, the United States District Court granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the operators of Sci-Hub, the Library…

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