Anti-Piracy Monitoring as a Service

Canary provides continuous anti-piracy monitoring for publishers.

Canary monitors piracy-related platforms and ecosystems for suspected exposure of books, chapters, journal articles and DOIs, providing publishers with structured evidence, reporting and ongoing visibility.

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Canary can help answer:
  • ✓ Are our DOIs appearing on piracy-related platforms?
  • ✓ Which assets appear most exposed?
  • ✓ Which sites are claiming availability?
  • ✓ Can evidence be collected consistently?
  • ✓ Is wider monitoring justified?

What Canary Does

Canary is designed for publishers who need a structured way to identify, review and report suspected piracy exposure across scholarly and publishing assets.

DOI Checks

Search individual DOIs and review suspected availability across supported piracy-related sources.

Batch Monitoring

Upload and assess DOI samples or title lists to understand exposure across a wider portfolio.

Evidence Review

Review suspected matches and supporting data before reporting or escalation.

Publisher Reporting

Produce clear summaries for rights, legal, information security and leadership teams.

Anti-Piracy Monitoring Options and Pricing

Choose a structured 90-day pilot, an ongoing anti-piracy monitoring service, or a fully managed service covering the publisher’s Crossref DOI catalogue.

Recommended Pilot

90-Day Evidence-Gathering Pilot

A structured pilot using real publisher assets to validate Canary’s monitoring, evidence gathering and reporting before wider adoption.

£1,000 /month
  • 90-day evaluation period
  • Monitoring against real publisher assets
  • Evidence-led reporting
  • Supports an internal business case
  • 100% driven and managed by publisher
  • Fixed total pilot cost of £3,000 over 90 days
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Ongoing Service

Anti-Piracy Monitoring Service

Continuous publisher-level anti-piracy monitoring, evidence gathering and reporting across supported piracy-related platforms and ecosystems.

£2,000 /month
  • Ongoing anti-piracy monitoring
  • Publisher-level reporting
  • Wider asset coverage
  • Regular review cycles
  • Evidence and source information
  • 100% driven and managed by publisher
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Fully Managed

Fully Managed Anti-Piracy Monitoring

A fully managed service in which Canary automatically identifies and searches the publisher’s Crossref DOI catalogue and provides structured weekly reporting.

£3,000 /month
  • Automatic Crossref DOI catalogue discovery
  • Automated searches across supported platforms
  • Weekly found and not-found reporting
  • New-result tracking between reporting periods
  • Evidence and source details for identified exposure
  • Service operated by infosecservices ltd
  • 0% effort from publisher required
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Not sure where to start? The 90-day pilot allows publishers to review real monitoring evidence before moving to an ongoing or fully managed anti-piracy monitoring service.

Why Start with a Pilot?

Many publishers do not yet know the scale of their piracy exposure or whether ongoing monitoring is justified. Canary’s pilot option is designed to answer that question with evidence rather than assumptions.

This gives legal, rights, information security and leadership teams a clearer basis for deciding whether wider monitoring should become part of their anti-piracy or risk management process.

The adoption ladder
1
90-Day Evidence-Gathering Pilot

A structured trial using real publisher assets.

2
Enterprise Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring and reporting for publisher teams.

Example Report

Example Canary Exposure Report

The example below uses fictitious publisher data and dummy book titles to illustrate the type of evidence-led reporting Canary can provide.

Demo data only: The publisher, titles, DOIs and results shown here are fictional and are provided only to demonstrate Canary's reporting format.

Publisher

Northbridge Academic Press

Assets Reviewed

12 fictitious titles

Sites Checked

5 target sources

Suspected Exposure

7 sample matches
Fictitious Exposure Findings
Demonstration view showing how suspected matches could be summarised.
Demo Report
Title Fictitious DOI / Identifier LibGen Sci-Hub Anna's Archive PDFDrive Z-Library Risk
Foundations of Digital Scholarship
Northbridge Academic Press 		10.0000/nap.demo.001 Found Not found Found Not found Claimed High
Research Methods for Open Knowledge
Northbridge Academic Press 		10.0000/nap.demo.002 Not found Found Claimed Not found Not found Medium
Machine Learning in Modern Publishing
Northbridge Academic Press 		10.0000/nap.demo.003 Found Not found Found Claimed Found High
Ethics, Archives and Public Memory
Northbridge Academic Press 		10.0000/nap.demo.004 Not found Not found Claimed Not found Not found Low
Applied Cybersecurity for Libraries
Northbridge Academic Press 		10.0000/nap.demo.005 Found Not found Not found Found Claimed High
Summary Finding

In this fictitious example, Canary identifies suspected exposure across multiple piracy-related sources, with several titles appearing on more than one target site.

Evidence Value

Results can help legal, rights, information security and publishing teams understand where further review, escalation or monitoring may be appropriate.

Recommended Next Step

A 90-day pilot can expand the sample size, track repeat findings, and help determine whether full enterprise monitoring is justified.