Science — or more specifically, scientific research — is broken right now. It’s not the research itself that’s faulty: Today’s scientists are conducting some of the most ambitious and incredible ...

We reported a few weeks ago on a popular pirate site for science journals whose oversees admin was being sued by one of the world's leading academic publishers, Elsevier. Elsevier is the same New York ...

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 ...

There’s a battle going on in academia between the scientific journal publishing companies that have long served as the main platform for peer review and spreading information, and scientists ...

The rise, fall, and resurfacing of a popular piracy website for scholarly-journal articles, Sci-Hub, has highlighted tensions between academic librarians and scholarly publishers. The rise, fall, and ...

A report from Science shows that academic paper piracy site Sci-Hub is not a niche product catering to cheapskates and isolated mad scientists: It’s as popular as it is illegal, and its millions of ...