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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...