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SUMMARY:Governing Digital Knowledge Infrastructures - Sci-Hub\, a pirate i
 nfrastructure?
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DESCRIPTION:Chérifa Boukacem\, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1\; Pierre
  Mounier\, Academic Guest of the EPFL Laboratory for the History of Scienc
 e and Technology\nThe College of Humanities and the Laboratory for the His
 tory of Science and Technology are pleased to invite you to the first sess
 ion of Pierre Mounier’s monthly seminar on Governing Digital Knowledge 
 Infrastructures\, with Pr. Chérifa Boukacem as guest.\n\nDigital infrastr
 uctures are required to design and develop their services to be “user-ce
 ntric”: users’ needs should be the starting point of the service provi
 sion. But in some cases\, users don’t wait for institutions and companie
 s to deliver the services they need\; they take the initiative to address 
 immediately their own needs\, without being embarrassed or slowed down by 
 financial\, organisational or legal obstacles.\n\nSci-hub\, a peer-to-peer
  platform dedicated to scientific publications sharing\, was developed in 
 2011 by the researcher Alexandra Elbakyan. Even though the platform clearl
 y infringes copyright law and is regularly sued by commercial publishers\,
  it receives popular support from the researchers worldwide and is massive
 ly used. In a provocative paper published in Palladium Magazine. Jason Par
 ry argues that “Like the clandestine networks that helped to promote and
  popularize prohibited ideas and research in earlier eras\, Sci-Hub functi
 ons as an infrastructure for circumventing artificially imposed limits on 
 human thought”. Recent research showed indeed that Sci-Hub and its siste
 r platform dedicated to academic books\, Lib-Gen\, are favored in particul
 ar by ECRs: Nicholas\, David\, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri\, Jie Xu\, Eti 
 Herman\, David Clark\, Abdullah Abrizah\, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo\, and Ma
 rzena Świgoń\, "Sci-Hub: The New and Ultimate Disruptor? View from the F
 ront" Learned Publishing 32\, no 2 (2019): 147 53.\n\n	What does the succe
 ss of Sci-Hub mean regarding the current status of scholarly communication
 ?\n	How does it exemplify the failure of the current scholarly communicati
 on ecosystem to address new demands from the youngest generation of schola
 rs to be able to access and share knowledge without barriers?\n	Can we con
 sider Sci-hub as a revealing agent or as a disrupting player in the ecosys
 tem?\n	How can it be compared with previous similar initiatives in other d
 omains\, such as Napster and Pirate Bay?\n\nThe workshop will be organized
  in two parts:\n\n\n	2:00 - 3:00 pm: Dr Cherifa Boukacem\, Professor at Ly
 on University\, one of the researchers participating in the “Harbinger
 ” study on ECRs’ information practices\, and co-author of the paper on
  the usage of Sci-Hub will be with us at EPFL to discuss her study with th
 e audience. The discussion will be moderated by Mounier.\n	 \n	3:30-5:00 
 pm: A workshop will take place where volunteers can experiment collectivel
 y the creation of visual essays reflecting their personal views on the top
 ic discussed previously\, using Juncture\, a user-friendly open source onl
 ine authoring tool recently released by Jstor Labs.\n\n> Registration to p
 articipate is free but compulsory (12 persons max\, first come first serve
 d):
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