Viewpoint
The Deceptive Allure of Sci-Hub
OSA Executive Editor Alison Taylor and OSA Fellow Joseph Izatt offer a perspective on the world’s largest illegal purveyor of scientific papers—and its potential to damage science.
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OSA was founded 100 years ago to improve access to optical science and its results. That commitment, embodied in the very first issue of JOSA in January 1917, continued through the establishment, in 1997, of Optics Express, the first open-access (OA) journal in the physical sciences. It is manifest today in the array of 17 international journals, both subscription and OA, that the society supports. One of us, Joseph Izatt, was the founding editor of one of those OA journals, Biomedical Optics Express; the other, Alison Taylor, helped realize and advance OSA’s newest OA effort, the highly selective Optica.
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