Presentation
Wrestling with Pigs: The Ethical Dilemma of Teaching Sci-Hub.pptx
Information Literacy Summit
(2021)
Abstract
“Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.” Students and faculty are increasingly turning to the academic article sharing website Sci-Hub for their research needs. Sci-Hub built its database of articles using legal and illegal means. Ethical dilemmas arise when a choice must be made between multiple options that each compromise our ethics. Avoidance of the Sci-Hub issue appears to be the current status quo of most librarians. In this presentation I will challenge the status quo by comparing various professional codes of ethics against the question of whether to teach Sci-Hub.
Keywords
- Information Literacy,
- Sci-Hub,
- ethics,
- Library Science
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 29, 2021
Location
online
Citation Information
Christopher A. Sweet. "Wrestling with Pigs: The Ethical Dilemma of Teaching Sci-Hub.pptx" Information Literacy Summit (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_sweet/53/
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