India, a country where the right to knowledge is protected by law, has banned Sci-Hub.
Don’t they have a nationwide subscription to loads of scientific journals though?
India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals
India has one of the most liberal fair use laws in the world, and the copying of educational material for personal use is legal. So this is very disappointing.
For ISP blocks like this will proxies or VPN work?
Also do the sites mirror to darknet?
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.
Hopefully the new EU initiative to offer free publishing can fill that hole. Maybe in a second step to offer other papers.
