The high prestige journals, and most past works, are stuck behind paywalls. Since 2011, Sci-Hub has taken science publishing open by force, illegally obtaining papers and publishing them in ...

Last November, the American Chemical Society (ACS) won its lawsuit against Sci-Hub, a popular pirate site for academic papers. Since then, a number of Sci-Hub’s domains have been suspended, and ...

Scientific articles obtained through Sci-Hub, a pirate repository that offers millions of paywalled studies for free, have a larger impact and visibility, according to an international group of ...

Sci-Hub, using legally dubious methods, makes academic research free to researchers worldwide. It is a win for Western academia.