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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sci-Hub, using legally dubious methods, makes academic research free to researchers worldwide. It is a win for Western academia. Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to ...

Earlier this month, the Delhi High Court directed the government to block the shadow library Sci-Hub. This came as part of the long-running case between Sci-Hub and LibGen on one end, and publishing ...

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.