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 ...

Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that trend has been shifting as various governments and funding agencies ...

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 American Chemical Society has requested a default judgment of $4.8 million and a broad injunction against pirate website Sci-Hub in an ongoing legal battle. The ACS filed its lawsuit against ...

When the Delhi High Court ordered internet service providers to block access to Sci-Hub and its mirrors, it closed a chapter in one of the more fraught debates in contemporary research: who gets to ...

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 ...

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 ...