IPA Chief Slams SciHub, Argues for Unity Against Copyright Threats and Piracy

The International Publishers Association (IPA) chief Michiel Kolman, Elsevier’s senior vice president for global academic relations, made the opening address at 2018 Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference. As an answer to the event’s key question about “ramping up relevance”, he called for the industry to place its authority and intellectual rigor at the center of its work. He also pointed out that division in the business is not helping, and sharply condemned SciHub as a real threat of piracy.