Sci-Hub and Scholarly Literature:

Sci-Hub is a website that brands itself as the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers. It is a controversial form of open science because it infringes upon the copyright of publishers. However, Daniel believes it will push scholarly publishing towards more open business models.



When Sci-Hub tweeted the list of every article in its database in March 2017, Daniel and his research group began analyzing it openly on GitHub. Fast-forward almost a year and, after the publication of three preprint articles, they published their findings in the journal eLife with the title “Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature”.



In addition to their publication, they also created a Stats Browser to help anyone explore the data.



