I think latex is cute (thanks pseuobscura) but nobody uses it because it takes longer to write something down than do the research. If you're using it, you're just wasting early retirement money. But ...

If you’ve written a paper, done scientific research, or simply existed in an academic setting over the past decade, you’ve probably heard of Sci-Hub. The platform, created by programmer and activist ...

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 ...

“Check out the PRC 2023 (2) paper.” When my supervisor told me about a new research paper as I was doing my PhD in 2017, I immediately downloaded it from the Sci-Hub – the web platform that offers ...

A little known fact about Swedes: when they get angry, they will often scribble down a note on paper — sometimes anonymously — and leave it where it will be seen, rather than confront a person face-to ...

After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake. The pirated database of ...

Indian researchers face a setback as Sci-Hub, a vital resource for accessing research papers, is blocked following a court order in a copyright dispute between major publishers and the platform. This ...

Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to scholarship or stealing outright. Her website, Sci-Hub, is a callback to an older, freer internet, where users collaborated to ...

In what marks a heavy blow to the free access of scholarly articles and research papers in India, the Delhi High Court (HC) has ordered the Government to block the shadow library Sci-Hub in India.

After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake. The pirated database of ...