Sci-Hub academic paper/file sharing site under attack

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Pirate website offering millions of academic papers for free refuses to close despite lawsuit
Alexandra Elbakyan argues publishers are acting illegally by charging for the papers and sites Article 27 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

Emma Henderson | Monday 15 February 2016|
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pirate-website-offering-mill ions-of-academic-papers-for-free-refuses-to-close-despite-law-suit-a68 75001.html

The website has more than 47,000,000 papers Getty

Millions of academic papers have been made available online after a Russian neuroscientist set up a website offering them for free.

Alexandra Elbakyan, who set up the website Sci-Hub, said the paper’s publishers were limiting the spread of knowledge by charging people to read them.

The website, which has more than 47,000,000 papers, began as Ms Elbakyan was forced to pay to read articles while doing her own research.
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“Payment of $32 (£22) is just insane when you need to skim or read tens of hundreds of these papers to do research,” she told Torrent Freak.

The website’s motto is “to remove all barriers in the way of science”, describing itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers”......