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 ...

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

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 cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic ...

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 ...

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.