Is Sci-Hub illegal?
Sci-Hub (SciHub) is a searchable database of articles and papers that have been made illegally available. Content that is available through this platform is infringing the copyright of many scholarly publishers. This activity has the potential to cut off the University’s access to databases.
Where can I find free scientific articles?
The Top 21 Free Online Journal and Research Databases
- CORE.
- ScienceOpen.
- Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Education Resources Information Center.
- arXiv e-Print Archive.
- Social Science Research Network.
- Public Library of Science.
- OpenDOAR.
What is open source research?
So what is open-source research? It’s research that exhausts any publicly available information, including the internet, social media, books, periodicals, databases and foreign-language-based content.
Who is the girl in Sci-Hub?
Alexandra Elbakyan
According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. Elbakyan has been described as “Science’s Pirate Queen”. In 2016, Nature included her in their top ten people that mattered in science list….
| Alexandra Elbakyan | |
|---|---|
| Website | sci-hub.se/alexandra |
Who owns Sci-Hub?
Alexandra Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub to thwart journal paywalls. Beyond being the founder of Sci-Hub, the world’s largest pirate site for academic papers, and risking arrest as a result, Alexandra Elbakyan is a typical science graduate student: idealistic, hard-working, and relatively poor.
What is best research topic?
Some common research paper topics include abortion, birth control, child abuse, gun control, history, climate change, social media, AI, global warming, health, science, and technology.
Is Google Scholar peer reviewed?
Google and Google Scholar are separate search engines. While we discourage you from citing webpages and other resources discovered through a Google search, those discovered through Google Scholar are much more likely to be peer reviewed. But “much more likely” does not mean that they always are.
What are open research issues?
Open research is concerned with making scientific research more transparent, more collaborative and more efficient. Other aspects are more open forms of collaboration and engagement with a wider audience, including citizen scientists and the public at large.