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 ...

Police in the UK issued a warning over the weekend against visiting Sci-Hub, a website that offers over 85 million free research papers that are typically behind paywalls. Police claim that people ...

When a neuroscientist from Kazakhstan started a website to help fellow researchers access scientific literature hidden behind paywalls in 2011, few could have predicted the outcome. Six years later ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

It’s been a rough few months for Sci-Hub, the beloved outlaw repository of scientific papers. In January its Twitter account, which had more than 180,000 followers, was permanently suspended. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Boaz Sobrado is a fintech leader and entrepreneur. Alexandra Elbakyan has been called many things: "Science's Pirate Queen," a ...

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