{"id":20113,"date":"2017-11-02T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=20113"},"modified":"2017-11-02T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:36:53","slug":"another-sci-hub-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/another-sci-hub-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Sci-Hub study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another recent study of the pirate academic site Sci-Hub, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.ifla.org\/1892\/1\/S12-2017-houle-en.pdf\">&#8220;Sci-Hub and LibGen: what if&#8230; why not?&#8221;<\/a>. On a thoroughly randomised sample of articles, found via 55 different commercial databases recommended to students at McGill University, Canada&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the overall retrieval rates for the 2,750 samples, as of July 2017, is pretty good. The full-text retrieval rates for both Sci-Hub and LibGen are respectively 70% and 69% [&#8230;] At the discipline level, the results are showing the lowest retrieval rates in Sci-Hub for Law (20%), Music (28%) and Business\/Management (32%). [while] five databases (9%) are showing a 100% retrieval rate (British Humanities [Humanities Index, nowadays tracking around 400 titles from the UK and Commonwealth], Elsevier ScienceDirect, Sage, Springer and Wiley) coming from the following disciplines \u2013 Humanities and Multidisciplinary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;100% retrieval rate&#8221; for the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.mcmaster.ca\/articles\/bhi-british-humanities-index\">Humanities Index<\/a> seems odd. Although looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/documents\/Title_List_-_British_Humanities_Index.html\">titles list<\/a> of current actively indexed titles, it seems possible for the 318 &#8220;Core coverage titles&#8221;.  Though I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d be picking up many articles at Sci-Hub from newspapers such as the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em> or trade journals such as <em>Town and Country Planning<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another recent study of the pirate academic site Sci-Hub, &#8220;Sci-Hub and LibGen: what if&#8230; why not?&#8221;. On a thoroughly randomised &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/another-sci-hub-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}