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 ...

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.

Researchers in India fear they may have limited access to academic papers after an Indian court’s decision to block the pirate website Sci-Hub, which provides illegal access to millions of scholarly ...

Indian researchers face a setback as Sci-Hub, a vital resource for accessing research papers, is blocked following a court order in a copyright dispute between major publishers and the platform. This ...

Scientific articles obtained through Sci-Hub, a pirate repository that offers millions of paywalled studies for free, have a larger impact and visibility, according to an international group of ...

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.

Pirate site Sci-Hub has been blocked in Russia after a group of publishers applied to the courts to get service providers to stop serving the site. Springer Nature and Elsevier have both confirmed ...

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 ...