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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. court has awarded Elsevier $15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub and a similar website, both of which provide free access to pirated scientific journal articles.

Institutional access to journals and books is poor and limited, which affects the quality of work by Indian researchers.

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 ...

In 2020, publishing giants Elsevier, Wiley Periodicals (including its Indian division), and the American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit against LibGen and Sci-hub for copyright infringement before ...

An illustration of the Sci-Hub homepage with a big red X through it. An Indian court has asked authorities to block access to Sci-Hub in the country. Credit: C&EN Illustration Researchers in India ...

The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a shorthand justification for an ideology that would ...

Renovations beginning this spring will provide a vibrant new home in the John Crerar Library building for the Department of Computer Science and the Computation Institute. Included as well are ...