Med Students Use P2P to Acquire Journal Research

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Study investigates increasing use of file-sharing software to make non-open access (NOA) journals, ones requiring payment, available to other medical professionals online. Oftentimes the debate over the illegal use of P2P software is framed around copyrighted media like movies and music, and never about the exchange of important data like that consumed by medical professionals. Ken Masters of ITHealthEd conducted a study recently investigating the practice of medical students sharing non-open access (NOA) journals, ones available only through payment, by uploading them to public download sites as facilitated by an unnamed file-sharing website.