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Study of article sharing on medical website - but which website? http://bit.ly/1RaBTn 10/28/2009 |
Medical Researchers Resort To File Sharing To Get Access To Journal Research
Techdirt —
... points us to a report looking at one such community that had over 100,000 registered users sharing scans and uploads of medical research reports from non-open journals via some basic forum-type software (so not really peer-to-peer... yet). The community that was looked at contained nearly 300,000 postings, with people requesting certain reports, and others delivering them. ...
The Latest File-Sharing Piracy: Academic Journals
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... A new study, published in the Internet Journal of Medical Informatics, looks at a site aimed specifically at medical professionals and students and finds that thousands of people were obtaining non-open-access materials free of charge. The article says that in a six-month period of watching the unnamed site, nearly 5,500 articles were exchanged, costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year. ...
