Largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove ...

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 ...

The rise, fall, and resurfacing of a popular piracy website for scholarly-journal articles, Sci-Hub, has highlighted tensions between academic librarians and scholarly publishers. The rise, fall, and ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered authorities to block access to so-called online shadow libraries Sci-Hub, Sci-Net and their mirror domains, in a copyright infringement case, Live Law reported. In its ...

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 ...

When a neuroscientist from Kazakhstan started a website to help fellow researchers access scientific literature hidden behind paywalls in 2011, few could have predicted the outcome. Six years later ...

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 ...

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 ...