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

Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to scholarship or stealing outright. Her website, Sci-Hub, is a callback to an older, freer internet, where users collaborated 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...