There’s a battle going on in academia between the scientific journal publishing companies that have long served as the main platform for peer review and spreading information, and scientists ...

Police are warning students and universities not to access Sci-Hub, an "illegal website" that allows users to download scientific research papers normally locked behind expensive subscriptions. Russia ...

Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield. Sci-Hub, the popular ...

In 2020, publishing giants Elsevier, Wiley Periodicals (including its Indian division), and the American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit against LibGen and Sci-hub for copyright infringement before ...

A website illegally offering academic papers for download is fighting back against a copyright infringement lawsuit in the US and has no intention of giving up Sci-Hub Sci-Hub, a website dubbed the ...

A report from Science shows that academic paper piracy site Sci-Hub is not a niche product catering to cheapskates and isolated mad scientists: It’s as popular as it is illegal, and its millions of ...

For roughly the past decade, Sci-Hub—aka, the “Pirate Bay of Science—has been giving researchers, reporters, and open-source advocates unfettered access to countless scientific papers across every ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan for allowing free access to a wealth of scientific knowledge. reading time 3 minutes In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England ...

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