The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan for allowing free access to a wealth of scientific knowledge. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes In 1581, Queen ...

The American Chemical Society won its lawsuit against the internet pirate site Sci-Hub for illegally distributing its copyrighted content. Federal Judge Leonie M. Brinkema on Nov. 3 ordered Sci-Hub to ...

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 ...

There is little dispute that Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of proprietary academic papers, is illegal. Yet, despite being successfully sued twice by major American ...

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 ...

The recent alliance of pirate academic library Sci-Hub and a blockchain-based domain name system (DNS) was celebrated by the blockchain community. Now, it's already over. Less than two days after ...

Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a website that provides free access to paywalled academic papers. The account was being used by Sci-Hub’s founder to collect statements of support from ...

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 ...