Hi all, We're hosting a Sci-Hub Meetup in London next week and I thought some people from here might be interested.
Shortly about Sci-Hub: Sci-Hub is an online website that provides access to millions of research papers. It is also illegal, because to properly get access to these papers one needs to pay to the publishers. However, poor countries and universities cannot afford to pay—and a large percentage of this world research is public funded. The meetup will take place at Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG on Thursday, September 23, 2021. Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/7PGNugeR6dPika6W8 Event page: https://scihublondon.org/meetup-1/ Sci-Hub has a large impact to researchers from all disciplines, students, activists, copyright pirates, politicians, law people, and eventually the whole of society. This is the reason that we expect people from various different fields of interest to join. This is also the reason that even if one feels they are from a completely irrelevant area and are not sure if they should attend, the answer is definitely yes! I’m pretty confident everyone can fit it and talk about Sci-Hub. In terms of agenda, there will be a short presentation about the latest developments around Sci-Hub and then various discussions around Sci-Hub, ethical concerns, social impact, et al. Hope to see you there :) Kind regards, Theodore Keloglou _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
