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www-techdirt-com-4501		To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid | Techdirt			.html	application/xhtml+xml	6855	609	75	In this respect, Sci-Hub stands as a constant reproach to academic publishers, emphasizing that their products aren't very good in terms of serving libraries, which are paying expensive subscriptions for access. In the specific case of Sci-Hub, academic content (journal articles and books) is illegally harvested using a variety of methods, such as abusing legitimate log in credentials to access the secure computer networks of major universities and by hijacking "proxy" credentials of legitimate users that facilitate off campus remote access to university computer systems and databases. The credentials of legitimate users that Sci-Hub draws on -often gladly "lent" by academics who believe papers should be made widely available -are purely to access articles held on the system. Sci-Hub simply provides free, frictionless access for everyone to existing articles from academic publishers. Of course Sci-Hub and the like are threats to the scholarly communications ecosystem -that ecosystem currently includes a robust species of parasite, known by the common name "commercial academic publishers", which could go extinct.	./cache/www-techdirt-com-4501.html	./txt/www-techdirt-com-4501.txt