Sci-Hub has launched an AI: this is brilliant, necessary, and ultimately and sadly, not yet enough, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi One of the biggest con jobs on the planet has been run for decades by ...

②Exclusive Interview with the Operator of ‘Paper Pirate’ Sci-Hub… “Is It a Crime to Share Knowledge?” The high cost of accessing academic papers has given rise to 'knowledge piracy,' an illegal method ...

The site 'Sci-Hub ', which publishes a large number of academic papers for free, has been sued by major academic journal publishers such as Elsevier. In December 2020, Elsevier filed a proceeding in ...

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 ...

Hitting a paywall is a regular occurrence for those trying to read the latest research study. But now anyone with internet can access for free almost all the scholarly research produced in the world.

Download figures for Sci-Hub, the popular but controversial website that hosts pirated copies of scientific papers, reveal where people are using the site most. The statistics show that users ...

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 ...

A petition launched on August 10 to restore the book piracy database Z-Library and stop criminal prosecution of the people linked to it has received over 7,000 signatures and support from Sci-Hub, an ...

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.

The $10 billion world of academic publishing has been roiled in recent months by Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old grad student from Kazakhstan who set up an online database of 50 million stolen ...