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Indian court bans Sci-Hub, leaving some researchers worried (www.chemistryworld.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by obbeel@mander.xyz to c/science@mander.xyz

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India, a country where the right to knowledge is protected by law, has banned Sci-Hub.

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[–] obbeel@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sci-hub is kind of abandoned, it lacks articles from before 2021. It stopped around that time; I think it's just too much pressure to publicize articles. The owner Alexandra is from Russia, and Russia also got to ban Sci-Hub.

But the problem here isn't that the "service" is lacking as of now, but that a country that supposedly should care about freedom of information and knowledge just bans Sci-Hub, even though they took some time to do it.