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Catch 22;Libraries in theAge of Sharing
Seang-ILL PeterBaePrincetonUniversityLibrary
May20th 2016TheLLA3rd Conference
I have aquestion. Pleasehelpme toanswerwithyour thoughts andexperiences.
What canor should librariesdowith illegalsharing ofacademicresources such as
SCI-HUBor #icanhazPDF?
Internet helps us to share our knowledge fasterand more efficiently. However, what about the
quality of information we share on theInternet?
Peter Steiner, publishedbyThe NewYorker on July 5, 1993.
“Everything is onthe Internet andeverything on theInternet is free.”
When a decisionmaker believesthis, we are in adeep trouble.
8th centurymanuscriptsharedby
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Libraries
Interlibrary Loan
betweenmedieval
Cordova(Spain) and Bagdad.
International Interlibrary Loan
1883: Austria grants Intl. ILL1900: Library of Congress1910s:Royal Library of Berlin-6,500 to 12,000 loan annually.
Borrowing top5 Lending top5
U.Pennsylvania 106,494 U.Minnesota 131,918
OhioState 95,791 U.Wisconsin 125.502
YaleU. 87,135 OhioState 106,507
U.Wisconsin 81,149 U.Illinois,Urbana 86,226
WashingtonU. 75,889 ColoradoU. 82,629
From 2013-2014 ARL)Association ofResearch Libraries( Statistics
We try hard but some users, either do not know about ourservice or maybe they are not satisfied with what we offer. So they started…
• Whenyou need an articlewhich you cannot get access,send a message on twitterwith hashtag, #icanhazPDF.
• Then someonewho can accessthe article “may” send you thefile.
• After received the file, deletethe twitter message.
• Not always the user cannotaccess but…
OriginalURLhttp://scihub.ioisnotworkingbutthroughitsTwitteraccountandFacebookaccount,youcaneasilyfinda
workingURLorIPaddress.
• Created in 2011 by a scholar fromKazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan; areaction to high paywall.
• More than 5 million articles available.• Elbakyan claims, “access credentialsare donated by scholars.”
• DOI• Article Title• Publisher’s URL of Article• If SCI-HUB has article, immediate PDFaccess, otherwise, tries to download itfrom a library.
• Founder: ”remove all barriers in the way ofscience.”
• Publishers: “This is a clear piracy ofcopyrightedmaterials. I’ll sue you, let’stalk at the court” and they did.
• Librarians: “Hmm…this is an illegal activity. But I understandwhy they did it.”
• Users:”I need that article and I need it now. Since I use it for my research, this is not acriminal act.”
What Authors say:
"I’m torn in the sense I think it would be better for thescience community if findings weremade freelyavailable," he says. "But I’m not sure how to sustainfunctions of society journals."
“I never felt people were pirating my work”
"I feel work paid for with public money should be openfor free”
*WhatDotheAuthorsofSci-Hub’sMost-DownloadedArticlesThinkAboutSci-Hub?(2016,May13).RetrievedMay16,2016,fromhttp://chronicle.com/article/What-Do-the-Authors-of/236469/
Bohannon, J. )2016(. Who’s downloadingpirated papers?
Everyone. Science. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5664
5,586downloadfromBeirutareainsixmonthperiod.
MostdownloadedarticleisfromInternationalConferenceonSimulationofSemiconductorProcessesandDevices.
SomeConcerns;
• Enduseragreementandlibrarieslicense
agreement;legalissues.
• Journalsubscriptioncostcanincrease.
• Morecumbersomelogonprocess.
• PatronPrivacyandnetworksecurity.
If ourusers start their research from
Google,not fromthe librarywebpage,
then canwefollowthem towhere they
areas a librarybookmarketorweb-browseradd-on?(i.e.ArticleGalaxyWidgetbyRePrint
Desk. http://info.reprintsdesk.com/widget101)
Howtomake‘dis+livery’ systemworking
for the resource sharingservice?
Whatabout if youcanget anarticle from
another institutiononeclickaway?
RapidILL
• AWebbased service which ownsmember
libraries’ serial holding info(including e-jnlholdings).
• Requests coming with a standard number will
be sent automatically to possible lenders.• Article can be sent through RapidX delivery
system.• Once article is received,borrowing library sends
arrival notice automatically to the user.
Moredifficult issue isnot technologybutworking togetherwithotherplayers
in thescholarly communicationlandscape.
Asimpleand fast ILL service, includinganactivecross-border ILL is a crucial support
for researchers.
WecannotpreventSCI-HUB likewebsitecompletelybut ifweprovide a fastandconvenientwayofgettingresources forscholars?
IFLA isworkingactivelyatWIPOSCCR(StandingCommitteeonCopyrightandRelatedRights) toachievethecopyright exemptionsfor the librariesandarchives. Weneedyour story.
Meanwhile, here are somehelps for your ILLWorks.
• ShareILL: http://shareill.org• IFLADDRS(DocumentDelivery andResourceSharing
Section) Ask Expert: http://www.ifla.org/docdel• VariousMailing List: DOC-DEL-L, ILL-L• ILLers; a FB Group For Interlibrary Loan Librarians
https://www.facebook.com/groups/172179662942180/
Let’s remember, we are all librarians, the same
spices, regardless where wework. So let’s share our resources and ideas.