Depending on whom you ask, Sci-Hub — the piracy network for academic journals — is either the Robin Hood of academic publishing or a parasite preying upon for-profit publishers. A lawsuit filed by ...

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 ...

A report from Science shows that academic paper piracy site Sci-Hub is not a niche product catering to cheapskates and isolated mad scientists: It’s as popular as it is illegal, and its millions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to scholarship or stealing outright. Her website, Sci-Hub, is a callback to an older, freer internet, where users collaborated to ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan for allowing free access to a wealth of scientific knowledge. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes In 1581, Queen ...

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 ...

The Justice Department is investigating a woman who runs a major Internet piracy operation on suspicion that she may also be working with Russian intelligence to steal U.S. military secrets from ...