scholarly journals Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

eLife ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S Himmelstein ◽  
Ariel Rodriguez Romero ◽  
Jacob G Levernier ◽  
Thomas Anthony Munro ◽  
Stephen Reid McLaughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage has been unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.1% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher, and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, a major research university in the United States. Green open access to toll access articles via licit services, on the other hand, remains quite limited. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.

scholarly journals Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S Himmelstein ◽  
Ariel R Romero ◽  
Jacob G Levernier ◽  
Thomas A Munro ◽  
Stephen R McLaughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Research University ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
First Time

The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage was unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.2% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, green open access via licit services is quite limited, while Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than a major research university. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model will become unsustainable.

scholarly journals C&RL Spotlight

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Wendi Kaspar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Walk Away ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Publisher ◽  
The University

March 2019 saw a gambit in the open access (OA) movement that may be as significant as Harvard’s OA policy: The University of California System declined to renew their subscriptions with a major scientific publisher. It is a gutsy move—but inspiring to see a major research university walk the talk, and, in this case, walk away from the negotiating table. Now other universities in the United States and across the world, are holding their collective breath to see what will happen—will the dominoes fall?

scholarly journals Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S Himmelstein ◽  
Ariel R Romero ◽  
Jacob G Levernier ◽  
Thomas A Munro ◽  
Stephen R McLaughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Research University ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
First Time

The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage was unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.2% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, green open access via licit services is quite limited, while Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than a major research university. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model will become unsustainable.

“Putting Down Roots”

On the Move ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
First Time ◽  
Central South ◽  
Migrant Groups

This chapter discusses a particular group that continually increased its share among the first-time migrants between 1965 and 2010—from less than 10 percent to nearly 70 percent. This group, called urban migrants, included a large share of men, mostly from urban communities in the border, central-south, and southeastern regions of Mexico rather than the traditional migrant-sending rural communities in the central-west. Urban migrants were significantly more educated compared to the circular, crisis, and family migrants in the preceding chapters, and also relative to non-migrants at their time. The group worked mostly in manufacturing and construction in the United States, earned significantly higher wages than the other migrant groups, and made fewer return trips to Mexico.

The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-52
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Business ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter examines why educational leaders and businessmen in the United States thought it was a good idea to establish business schools in the first place. The answer often offered at the time was that American business itself had grown so big and complex by the turn of the twentieth century that a new university-level education was now required for the new world of managerial work. However, the more powerful rationale was that businessmen wanted the social status and cultural cachet that came with a university degree. The chapter then looks at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1881 and became the first business school in the United States. All of the more than six hundred business schools founded in the nearly century and a half since descend from Wharton.

“DIONYSIAN ENLIGHTENMENT”: WALTER KAUFMANN'S NIETZSCHE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-269
Author(s):  
JENNIFER RATNER-ROSENHAGEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Intellectual Climate

Walter Kaufmann's monumental study of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950) dramatically transformed Nietzsche interpretations in the postwar United States and rendered Kaufmann himself a dominant figure in transatlantic Nietzsche studies from 1950 until his death in 1980. While the longevity of Kaufmann's hegemony over postwar American Nietzsche interpretations in particular is remarkable, even more so is the fact that he revitalized the career of such a radical thinker in the conservative intellectual climate of the 1950s. Philosophers and historians typically credit Kaufmann with rescuing Nietzsche from the Nazis, but argue that he did so by denaturing Nietzsche's philosophy of power and narrowly transforming him into an existentialist. By contrast, this essay argues that Kaufmann took a much more dramatic step by extending the scope of Nietzsche's philosophy, demonstrating how his ideas resonated with but also transcended the dominant philosophies of the day. Kaufmann presented Nietzsche as a philosopher uniquely poised to bridge the increasing mid-century rift between continental and analytic philosophies, as well as between the increasingly distinct moral worlds of academic philosophers and general readers. At a time when philosophical discourses within the university and beyond were pulling apart, Kaufmann put Nietzsche to work to bring them back together. By emphasizing Nietzsche's harmony with the range of scholarly and popular philosophical concerns of mid-century, he also established, for the first time in the United States, Nietzsche's role as a canonical thinker in the Western tradition.

“Between Worlds,” or an Imagined Reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about Equilibrium and Mathematics in the 1920s

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Leonard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Great City ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University

“Iwas born in 1902 in Görlitz, a small provincial town in Germany, and raised in Vienna, the great city of the multinational Austro-Hungarian empire. On my father's side, my family goes back to about 1530 in Saxony, my Lutheran forebears having been farmers, church wardens, judges, and businessmen. My mother was a natural daughter of Frederick III of Germany …”Yet another account of myself, for yet another encyclopaedia. Italian, this time. Once again, I put pen to paper and collapse the events of fifty years ago to a few familiar milestones. Now what shall I tell these Italians?“I finished the Gymnasium and took my Dr. Rer. Pol. at the University of Vienna in 1925. Awarded a Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship, I spent the next three years in England, the United States, France and Italy. Returning to Vienna, I soon became Docent, later Professor, at the University, and Director of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research …”And then there will be the doctoral thesis, Wirtschaftsprognose, the other Institute, Princeton, and so on. It is remarkable really, the rehearsed inevitability of it all … So often have I gone through exercises of this kind that there are times when I even begin to believe them myself.

PUBLIC HEALTH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1018-1021
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
First Time

For the first time in 3 years it is gratifying to note that the infant mortality in the United States has not increased. The estimated rate for 1959, 26.4, was about 2% lower than the 1958 rate of 26.9 and is at the same level as the 1957 rate. Low point thus far for the United States was in 1956, when the rate was 26.0. There was relatively little change in the other important rates—births, deaths and marriages. The natural increase in the population, that is births (including an estimate for those unregistered) minus deaths, was 2,632,000, giving a rate of increase of 14.9 per 1,000 population, essentially the same as the 1958 rate of 15.0.

Archaeological Explorations in Southern Peru, 1954–1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 22 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howland Rowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
The University

From March, 1954, through the whole of the year 1955 the University of California at Berkeley sponsored a program of archaeological field work in southern Peru and related studies in museums of the United States. In Peru the expedition worked out of 2 bases, one at Cuzco in the highlands and the other at lea on the south coast. It was concerned primarily with archaeological survey and exploration, although excavations were also made at 2 Inca period sites in the coastal area studied. The expedition staff consisted of John H. Rowe, Director, Dorothy Menzel (Mrs. Francis A. Riddell), Francis A. Riddell, Dwight T. Wallace, Lawrence E. Dawson, and David A. Robinson.

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