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"From a New Article in Science (No Paywall For This Article)..From Science (NO Paywall):http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone"But in increasing numbers, researchers around the world are turningto Sci-Hub, which hosts 50 million papers and counting. Over the 6months leading up to March, Sci-Hub served up 28 million documents.More than 2.6 million download requests came from Iran, 3.4 millionfrom India, and 4.4 million from China. The papers cover everyscientific topic, from obscure physics experiments published decadesago to the latest breakthroughs in biotechnology. The publisher withthe most requested Sci-Hub articles? It is Elsevier by a longshot—Sci-Hub provided half-a-million downloads of Elsevier papers inone recent week.These statistics are based on extensive server log data supplied byAlexandra Elbakyan, the neuroscientist who created Sci-Hub in 2011 asa 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan. I asked her for the databecause, in spite of the flurry of polarized opinion pieces, blogposts, and tweets about Sci-Hub and what effect it has on research andacademic publishing, some of the most basic questions remainunanswered: Who are Sci-Hub’s users, where are they, and what are theyreading?[Clip]The Sci-Hub data provide the first detailed view of what is becomingthe world’s de facto open-access research library. Among therevelations that may surprise both fans and foes alike: Sci-Hub usersare not limited to the developing world. Some critics of Sci-Hub havecomplained that many users can access the same papers through theirlibraries but turn to Sci-Hub instead—for convenience rather thannecessity. The data provide some support for that claim. The UnitedStates is the fifth largest downloader after Russia, and a quarter ofthe Sci-Hub requests for papers came from the 34 members of theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the wealthiestnations with, supposedly, the best journal access. In fact, some ofthe most intense use of Sci-Hub appears to be happening on thecampuses of U.S. and European universities."The article includes the following charts/graphs/maps:Sci-Hub Traffic Over Six MonthsSci-Hub Traffic, GloballyTop Five Cities Where Most Requests Come From (U.S.)Top 10 Most Downloaded Papers on Sci-HubMost Downloaded PublishersFull Texthttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyoneCoverage in the Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/04/28/whos-reading-millions-of-stolen-research-papers-on-the-outlaw-site-sci-hub-now-we-know/"[John] Bohannon [author of the Science article] quoted a GeorgeWashington University student saying it was sometimes difficult toaccess journals his school subscribes to from Google Scholar, a toolviewed as the easiest way to surface relevant papers. But if he putsthe paper’s title into Sci-Hub, he said, “It will just work.” (LIBLICENSE-L)On Sci Hub see here:https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/55814https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/54314