Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
Sci-Hub's homepage. | Sci-Hub Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a website that provides free access to paywalled academic papers. The account was being used by Sci-Hub's founder to collect statements of support from the scientific community during an ongoing court case in India.
Twitter suspends the account of Sci-Hub pic.twitter.com/XQfNYmR1Ra
- Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) January 8, 2021
Journal articles are often costly to access, and many researchers and writers use services like Sci-Hub to bypass those costs. Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright.
In December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society filed a suit with the Delhi...