After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake. The pirated database of ...

Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been ...

Windows Live Academic Search (academic.live.com) has been released by Microsoft in seven different countries with the intention of helping students, researchers, librarians and university faculty ...

As someone whose work crosses so many disciplines, I spend a fair bit of my days skimming new developments across not only computer science, but the humanities, social sciences, arts and many other ...

How much would you be willing to pay on a monthly basis for all-you-can-read access to a scholarly database like How much would you be willing to pay on a monthly basis for all-you-can-read access to ...

China’s top research organization is suspending the use of the country’s biggest online academic database due to an expensive subscription fee, domestic media outlet Red Star News reported Wednesday.

The skyrocketing cost of academic journal subscription services has made headlines around the world. Late last month, for example, the University of California announced it had cancelled its ...

A newly opened database launched by researchers at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Princeton shows the dramatic rise in the number of self-identifying LGBTQI+ people serving ...