Scindex Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited means of libraries, universities, individual scientists and scholars. Consider music for instance. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content creator or the software author - the plagiarist does.
Plagiarism is, therefore, more pernicious than piracy.
Why so many ebusinesses fail despite the booming Internet.