Is Sci-Hub illegal?

Is Sci-Hub illegal?

Sci-Hub, an illegal website that provides pirated copies of copyrighted scientific articles, obtains the articles by accessing a university or institution’s network while using the credentials of registered users and then downloading mass volumes of articles in a short period of time.

What is latest Sci-Hub URL?

https://sci-hub.ru. https://sci-hub.ee.

Is Sci-Hub still working 2021?

@Dulan Sci-hub is working fine and fetching manuscripts published before January 2021. It’s not fetching manuscripts published January 2021 onwards due to many legal actions taken by several main stream publishers in many countries.

How DOI open Sci-Hub?

Users can access works from all sources with a unified interface, by entering the DOI in the search bar on the main page or in the Sci-Hub URL (like some academic link resolvers), or by appending the Sci-Hub domain to the domain of a publisher’s URL (like some academic proxies).

Is Sci-Hub Russian?

Russia-based Sci-Hub describes itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers”, and is run in support of the Open Access movement, responding to the increasingly large fees charged by publishers.

Is Sci-Hub moral?

Sci-Hub seems to be here to stay, and although the actions behind Sci-Hub are clearly meant to provide everyone with free access to academic research, the approach taken is wrong and unethical.

Where has Sci-Hub gone?

In 2015, academic publisher Elsevier filed a legal complaint against SciHub alleging copyright infringement, and the subsequent lawsuit led to a loss of the original scihub.org domain. It stores papers in its own repository, and additionally the papers downloaded by Science Hub are also stored in LibGen.

How can I access articles for free?

5 free and legal ways to get the full text of research articles

1. Use your library if you have one!
2. Open Access browser extensions.
3. Google Scholar.
4. Researcher platforms.
5. Write to the author.
6. A nearby university library might offer access to articles even if you do not work or study there.
7. Try your public library.
8. Research4Life.

Why Science Hub is not working?

The main reason for the white screen problem is that the particular request from the sci-hub is not authorized to access that web page as per the dot compliance of your country. Therefore, you can not access the document with the direct method of using scihub.

Who is the girl waving in Sci-Hub?

In 2016, Nature included her in their top ten people that mattered in science list. Since 2011, she has been living in Russia….

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