A pirate site Sci-Hub: Recent trend and usage analytics from Japan
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- OTANI Shuhei
- University of the Ryukyus
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- BANDO Keita
- Nagoya Gakuin University
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- Other Title
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- 論文海賊サイトSci-Hubを巡る動向と日本における利用実態
- ロンブン カイゾク サイト Sci-Hub オ メグル ドウコウ ト ニホン ニ オケル リヨウ ジッタイ
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Abstract
<p>Sci-Hub is a pirate site for academic articles. Sci-Hub provides more 64 million academic articles for free. About 85% of the articles that can be downloaded for free from Sci-Hub otherwise require paid access. Sci-Hub therefore infringes upon academic publisher’s copyright. Yet despite the existence of legitimate academic article databases, users from around the world download over 350,000 articles each day from Sci-Hub; almost 3,800 of those daily downloads originate in Japan. In this paper, we first outline the trends pertaining to Sci-Hub. Next, we analyze the Sci-Hub download log data from 2017 and investigate the Sci-Hub Usage in Japan. Comparison of the results with Kuriyama’s (2016) survey reveals that the number of downloads and citations confirmed that Sci-Hub use has increased. We revealed that Open Access articles account for about 20% of Sci-Hub downloads and that about 80% of users use Sci-Hub only once by cookie.</p>
Journal
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- The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association
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The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 68 (10), 513-519, 2018-10-01
Information Science and Technology Association, Japan
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282763050231040
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- NII Article ID
- 130007493970
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- NII Book ID
- AN10005857
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- ISSN
- 21898278
- 09133801
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- HANDLE
- 20.500.12000/42525
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- NDL BIB ID
- 029238905
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- IRDB
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Allowed