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 ...

If you’ve written a paper, done scientific research, or simply existed in an academic setting over the past decade, you’ve probably heard of Sci-Hub. The platform, created by programmer and activist ...

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 ...

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 Delhi High Court banned Sci-Hub and Sci-Net, sparking debates over access to scholarly research in India. Academic labour often goes unpaid while publishing corporations profit from subscription ...

“Check out the PRC 2023 (2) paper.” When my supervisor told me about a new research paper as I was doing my PhD in 2017, I immediately downloaded it from the Sci-Hub – the web platform that offers ...