id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt netzpolitik-org-6133 News from Elsevier: No open access deal, but spyware against shadow libraries? .html text/html 1841 169 58 News from Elsevier: No open access deal, but spyware against shadow libraries? Instead of negotiating a switch to Open Access, however, Elsevier prefers to fight shadow libraries that make the contractless situation more bearable for researchers. The crow is the emblem of the scientific shadow library Sci-Hub – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com Kasturi Roy Five years have passed since universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions in Germany initiated terminating their contracts with the world's largest scientific publisher, Elsevier. Geographic distribution of Sci-Hub usage in Germany, based upon an Analysis of log files (data predominantly from 2017; Sources: Strecker 2019)What makes it easier to do without Elsevier access in everyday research is the existence of digital shadow libraries. According to an analysis by Himmelstein and others from 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to from 80 to 99 percent of the articles of the eight largest publishers, including Elsevier, with a coverage of 96.9 percent. ./cache/netzpolitik-org-6133.html ./txt/netzpolitik-org-6133.txt