In this week's episode, we talk about the end of Microsoft Academic and intellectual property protection for COVID vaccines.

SOURCES

FBI subpoenas Dr Elbakyan's data

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1390782451140767749

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-investigates-sci-hub-founder-on-suspicion-of-working-for-russian-intelligence/2019/12/19/9dbcb6e6-2277-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html

SciHub court case update

https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pno=1019626

SciHub citation advantage

http://jscires.org/sites/default/files/JScientometRes-10-1-130.pdf

Microsoft Academic Services discontinuation

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406254/microsoft-q3-2021-earnings-revenue-xbox-cloud-services-surface-gaming

https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-building-a-replacement-for-microsoft-academic-graph/

Patent waiver

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57004302

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-willing-discuss-covid-19-vaccine-patent-waiver-eus-von-der-leyen-2021-05-06/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/macron-voices-concerns-over-covid-vaccines-patent-waiver

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wto-chief-says-hopes-covid-patent-issue-settled-by-december-2021-05-10/