Sci-Hub is a website that makes more than 48 million scholarly research articles available online to anyone for free. However, many if not most of these articles are still under copyright and are ...
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 ...
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 ...
The rise, fall, and resurfacing of a popular piracy website for scholarly-journal articles, Sci-Hub, has highlighted tensions between academic librarians and scholarly publishers. The rise, fall, and ...
A U.S. court has awarded Elsevier $15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub and a similar website, both of which provide free access to pirated scientific journal articles.
The shadow library search engine and catalogue Anna’s Archive has gone down, as users discovered that they could no longer ...
An illustration of the Sci-Hub homepage with a big red X through it. An Indian court has asked authorities to block access to Sci-Hub in the country. Credit: C&EN Illustration Researchers in India ...
Sci Hub, a huge piracy site for scientific papers, has been ordered to close down. It has more than 64 million academic papers in its library, and publishers are on the warpath. Sci Hub, a famous ...
Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization ...
The umpteenth lawsuit by a group of publishers against the Sci-Hub scientific shadow library has been brought in India, and promises some interesting conclusions. Sci-Hub, created by Alexandra ...
Delhi HC ordered blocking of Sci-Hub, Sci-Net and mirrors in a copyright case by Elsevier, Wiley and ACS. Founder Alexandra Elbakyan was found in breach of a 2020 undertaking, held prima facie guilty ...