Lewis, David W.2019-07-232019-07-232019-07David W. Lewis, "The Black Market for Scholarly Articles: You Can’t Have Elsevier without Sci-Hub," July 2019.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/19915This article will argue that Sci-Hub is the inevitable result of for-profit scholarly journal publishing when articles are digital objects on the network. Sci-Hub is the black market that is the predicable result of the economics of scholarly publishing. To explore this proposition, we will begin with a brief history of Sci-Hub and then review the economics. Finally, we will explore the black market success of Sci-Hub.en-USAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesSci-HubBlack MarketsScholarly PublishersWorking Paper