For over a decade, Sci-Hub has been the pirate of science research. The site provides nearly 85 million journal articles for free, giving users a way to circumvent publishers’ paywalls, which can ...

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 ...

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 ...

For roughly the past decade, Sci-Hub—aka, the “Pirate Bay of Science—has been giving researchers, reporters, and open-source advocates unfettered access to countless scientific papers across every ...

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 ...

Science — or more specifically, scientific research — is broken right now. It’s not the research itself that’s faulty: Today’s scientists are conducting some of the most ambitious and incredible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...