+sci +hub https://news.mindynode.com/114/events/rss Earlier this year the American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading source of academic publications in the field of chemistry, filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub and its operator Alexandra Elbakyan.The non-profit organization publishes tens of thousands of articles a year in its peer-reviewed journals. Because many of these are available for free on Sci-Hub, ACS wants to be compensated Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:41:38 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/494 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/494 The American Chemical Society (ACS) is now suing Sci-Hub, the so-called "Pirate Bay for Scientists", over copyright infringement and counterfeiting, and is asking the courts to grant an injunction against the website in the US.Following the news that academic publisher Elsevier won a legal judgement of $15m (£11.6m) in damages against Sci-Hub for allowing people to illegally download peer-reviewed academic papers for free, the world's largest scientific society ACS has filed its own lawsuit in the state of Virginia against the website Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:35:57 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/493 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/493 Sci-Hub activity on 5 February 2016. CREDITS: (DATA) SCI-HUB; (IMAGE/AUTOPLAY VIDEO) ADAPTED BY J. YOU/SCIENCE There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:33:55 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/492 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/492 In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most lucrative industries in the world was headed for a crash. Reed-Elsevier, a multinational publishing giant with annual revenues exceeding £6bn, was an investor’s darling. It was one of the few publishers that had successfully managed the transition to the internet, and a recent company report was predicting yet another year of growth Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:28:10 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/490 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/490 Two years ago, academic publisher Elsevier filed a complaint against Sci-Hub and several related “pirate” sites.It accused the websites of making academic papers widely available to the public, without permission.While Sci-Hub is nothing like the average pirate site, it is just as illegal according to Elsevier’s legal team, who obtained a preliminary injunction from a New York District Court last fall Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:31:17 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/491 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/491 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:24:49 +0000 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/489 https://news.mindynode.com/en/links/489