>>13925412https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-by-uploading-2-3m-new-articles-210905/"In December 2020, publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed an injunction application in India to have Sci-Hub and partner site Libgen blocked by ISPs via a so-called ‘dynamic injunction’. In the appropriate forum and at the right time, these can be open-and-shut cases but in January, a High Court judge ordered a delay and declared the case “important”."
"This was in response to intervention applications filed by nineteen scientists, including a virologist and several physicists specializing in multiple research areas, plus the Delhi Science Forum and Knowledge Commons."
"Together, they summarized why Sci-Hub has become such a success and why publishers hate it so much. Open access to scientific research is absolutely vital for the advancement of scientific knowledge, they said, but publishers are only interested in making excessive profits by effectively restricting access only to the “elite institutions” that can afford their prices."
"The India case is still pending but the judge did see fit to hand down an interim injunction that prevented Sci-Hub from uploading new content to the site. Perhaps surprisingly (or less so, given the importance of the case), Sci-Hub chose to abide by the ruling but according to Alexandra, that order has now expired, something that allowed the massive anniversary data dump."
