“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 ...

Institutional access to journals and books is poor and limited, which affects the quality of work by Indian researchers.

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 ...

Download figures for Sci-Hub, the popular but controversial website that hosts pirated copies of scientific papers, reveal where people are using the site most. The statistics show that users ...

“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 papers, ...

Sci-Hub is a pirated paper site that allows you to browse academic papers for free, which can only be viewed for a fee, saying that 'the inability to read academic papers freely on the Internet ...

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.

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. And ...

Sci-Hub, a pirated version of the scholarly dissertation that allows users to view academic papers that can only be viewed for a fee, is supported by many researchers. However, such Sci-Hub `` causes ...