In early August, Indian users who accessed a website that once let them download books and scholarly journals for free found themselves locked out of the site. The landing page to Z-Library refused to ...

A petition launched on August 10 to restore the book piracy database Z-Library and stop criminal prosecution of the people linked to it has received over 7,000 signatures and support from Sci-Hub, an ...

A Delhi District Court was behind the recent blocking of four URLs for Z-Library, reported Entrackr on Thursday. A repository of pirated articles and books, reports of Z-Library’s blocking on ISPs ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered authorities to block access to so-called online shadow libraries Sci-Hub, Sci-Net and their mirror domains, in a copyright infringement case, Live Law reported. In its ...

For roughly the past decade, Sci-Hub—aka, the “Pirate Bay of Science—has been giving researchers, reporters, and open-source advocates unfettered access to countless scientific papers across every ...

Earlier this month, the Delhi High Court directed the government to block the shadow library Sci-Hub. This came as part of the long-running case between Sci-Hub and LibGen on one end, and publishing ...

A U.S. court has awarded Elsevier $15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub and a similar website, both of which provide free access to pirated scientific journal articles.

Sci Hub, a huge piracy site for scientific papers, has been ordered to close down. It has more than 64 million academic papers in its library, and publishers are on the warpath. Sci Hub, a famous ...