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, using legally dubious methods, makes academic research free to researchers worldwide. It is a win for Western academia. Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to ...

For over a decade, Sci-Hub has been the pirate of science research. The site provides nearly 85 million journal articles for free, giving users a way to circumvent publishers’ paywalls, which can ...

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 ...

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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 ...