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 ...

Sci-Hub, the scourge of academic publishers worldwide for allowing users to bypass their paywalls and download scientific papers for free, is increasingly receiving financial support from China, where ...

Sci-Hub, using legally dubious methods, makes academic research free to researchers worldwide. It is a win for Western academia. Kazakhstan native Alexandra Elbakyan is either democratizing access to ...

If you’ve written a paper, done scientific research, or simply existed in an academic setting over the past decade, you’ve probably heard of Sci-Hub. The platform, created by programmer and activist ...

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 ...