Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks recently tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly journals kept in the JSTOR database. JSTOR, a nonprofit ...

Alexandra Elbakyan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Alexandra ...

Aiming to make academia more accessible for undergraduates, Leo King has launched the Independent Expression for Undergraduates database (IndExU).

Fees charged by academic publishers to access research journals have caused no small amount of consternation among readers of scholarly research and fuelled the rise of the Open Access movement. Wiley ...

Universities have to pay thousands of dollars every year to read their own research online. Blame the broken economics of academic publishing. Thomas Barrat/Shutterstock This morning, I searched for ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Foreign universities and research institutions say their access to China’s largest academic database is ...