The New York City Council is launching a probe into revelations that a private real estate firm scored a deal to redevelop the city government’s public health lab just months after one of the ...

One solution has been Sci-Hub, a site where people can upload PDFs of published papers so they can be shared with anyone who can access the site. Despite losses in publishing industry lawsuits and ...

In 2020, publishing giants Elsevier, Wiley Periodicals (including its Indian division), and the American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit against LibGen and Sci-hub for copyright infringement ...

A petition launched on August 10 to restore the book piracy database Z-Library and stop criminal prosecution of the people linked to it has received over 7,000 signatures and support from Sci-Hub ...

Sci-Hub has been around since 2011 and has survived multiple big lawsuits and major allegations from UK police and the FBI. Image: Sharaf Maksumov (Shutterstock) In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of ...

A screenshot of the Sci-Hub website. TOKYO -- Illicit free downloads of academic papers are skyrocketing in Japan, reaching some 7.2 million in 2022, a Mainichi Shimbun investigation has found.

Piracy has long been a major problem for big businesses, with Netflix just the latest in a growing list of companies to crack down on password sharing. But as recent research shows, piracy is also ...

Sci-Hub, a web platform that provides open-access to lakhs of illegally obtained research papers, and whose legality is currently being considered in the Delhi High Court, is said to be Black OA.

“I am ready to (issue a) decree and it will not be good for you, it will be against you,” the Delhi High Court said to lawyers representing Sci-Hub, an online repository of pirated academic ...