Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. Our aim is to make all of these stakeholders aware of the threats, to expose cybercrime, and to share information across the academic research community to help protect publishers, authors, researchers, and library patrons. I continue to work with legal authorities in the US and UK, as well as with publishers, individual libraries and consortia. In recent years that’s meant spending a lot of time looking at Sci-Hub. Why me? I’ve been working on IP intrusions for many years, limiting the damage caused by intrusions to publishers and libraries. So when I was offered an opportunity to present actual evidence of how Sci-Hub is doing so much more than enabling the download of publisher’s PDFs at the SSP Annual Meeting, I accepted. I recall thinking that the issue of international IP theft was hitting closer to home for universities, and hoping more of them would start taking the threats posed by Sci-Hub – a similarly “brazen scheme to gather and redistribute scholarly content” – more seriously. His post followed a number of headline articles from the preceding months, including “ University secrets are stolen by cybergangs” on the front page of The Times in September 2017. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s unsealed indictments of nine Iranian citizens for the bulk theft of intellectual property from academic institutions in a brazen scheme to gather and redistribute scholarly content. īack in March, Scholarly Kitchen Chef and NISO Executive Director Todd Carpenter wrote a post titled, “FBI Indicts Nine Iranians in a Massive Scheme to Target Academic Credentials and Steal Content.” It was about the U.S. Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Andrew Pitts, Co-Founder and CEO of PSI, and is based on the talk he gave at the 2018 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting.
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