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Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia
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Abstract Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more than 2 million scholarly publications, monographs, and textbooks available. This paper analyzes a set of weblogs of one... mehr
Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more than 2 million scholarly publications, monographs, and textbooks available. This paper analyzes a set of weblogs of one of the Library Genesis mirrors, provided to us by one of the service’s administrators. We reconstruct the social and economic factors that drive the global and European demand for illicit scholarly literature. In particular, we test if lower income regions can compensate for the shortcomings in legal access infrastructures by more intensive use of illicit open resources. We found that while richer regions are the most intensive users of shadow libraries, poorer regions face structural limitations that prevent them from fully capitalizing on freely accessible knowledge. We discuss these findings in the wider context of open access publishing, and point out that open access knowledge, if not met with proper knowledge absorption infrastructures, has limited usefulness in addressing knowledge access and production inequalities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bibliothek; Publikation; Open Access; Fachliteratur; wirtschaftliche Faktoren; Illegalität; wissenschaftliche Arbeit; soziale Faktoren
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Information und Dokumentation, Bibliotheken, Archive
Freie Schlagwörter
ZA5688 v6.0.0: Eurobarometer 79.2 (2013)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 1-25
Zeitschriftentitel
PLOS ONE, 15 (2020) 12
ISSN
1932-6203
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)