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 ...
Last November, the American Chemical Society (ACS) won its lawsuit against Sci-Hub, a popular pirate site for academic papers. Since then, a number of Sci-Hub’s domains have been suspended, and ...
It’s been a rough few months for Sci-Hub, the beloved outlaw repository of scientific papers. In January its Twitter account, which had more than 180,000 followers, was permanently suspended. In ...
The Delhi High Court is set to hear the copyright infringement case against online shadow libraries for scholarly journals, LibGen and Sci-Hub, on August 23, 2024. In 2020, publishing giants Elsevier, ...
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 ...
Sci-Hub, an article pirating service, is one of the Web’s best-kept open secrets. But lately, it has been in the news, transcending debates that usually involve a small band of academics, publishers, ...
Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization ...
Sci-Hub, the scourge of academic publishers worldwide for allowing users to bypass their paywalls and download scientific papers for free, is increasingly receiving financial support from China, where ...
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 ...
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 future of a €1.3-billion (US$1.4-billion) programme to explore Mars has been thrown into doubt by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after the European Space Agency (ESA) said that the launch of its ...