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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Boaz Sobrado is a fintech leader and entrepreneur. Alexandra Elbakyan has been called many things: "Science's Pirate Queen," a ...

In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic ...

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.