Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers
@article{Schiermeier2015PirateRS, title={Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers}, author={Quirin Schiermeier}, journal={Nature}, year={2015} }
Millions of scientific articles remain freely accessible despite copyright violations.
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