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Survey Results from Academic Librarians and Professors on Teaching and Using Pirate Websites.
- Source :
- Internet Reference Services Quarterly; Jan-Mar2023, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p1-23, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Millions of full-text articles are downloaded per month using pirate websites. The purpose of this study was to survey professors and academic librarians on their knowledge, usage and teaching of pirate websites to students. A 21-question survey with adapted Likert scale and free text questions was sent to six academic librarian listservs and primary corresponding authors of top ten evolutionary and bioinformatics and computational biology journals since 2019 from Google Scholar rankings. Academic librarians (48%) and professors (60.5%) are not actively teaching about pirate websites. What is taught is how to ethically and legally access full-text articles, not the existence of pirate websites and how to use them. Concerns about espionage, viruses, and malware for affiliated institutions are concerns for professors and librarians. Sci-Hub continues to be the most known of pirate websites. Librarians and professors are satisfied with the selection of journal title offerings from their affiliated institutions, but desire additional resources for their research. Ease of use continues to be a reason why pirate websites are used, and cost in accessing full-text articles continues to be a concern for librarians and professors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMPUTER software
PROFESSIONS
TEACHING
DATA security failures
THEFT
COLLEGE teachers
SERIAL publications
ATTITUDES of medical personnel
HUMAN comfort
COLLEGE teacher attitudes
SURVEYS
BIOINFORMATICS
ENGINEERING
STUDENTS
ACCESS to information
COMPUTER viruses
JOB satisfaction
SEARCH engines
USER charges
LIBRARIANS
EMOTIONS
HUMANITIES
WORLD Wide Web
AUTHORSHIP
SCIENCE
ETHICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10875301
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Internet Reference Services Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161969708
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2022.2095474