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 ...

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 ...

Entertainment piracy may get the most attention, but it's far from the only type of unauthorized online sharing. Another major variety is educational piracy, both in the form of over-priced college ...

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 City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) is warning universities and students to not use ‘Sci Hub’, a series of websites that allow users to illegally access millions of ...

Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield. Sci-Hub, the popular ...

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, ...

There is little dispute that Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of proprietary academic papers, is illegal. Yet, despite being successfully sued twice by major American ...