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 ...

China National Knowledge Infrastructure, the country's largest online academic database, has been fined 50 million yuan ($6.9 million) for illegal collection of personal information, according to a ...

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), which has become the latest antitrust target by national regulators, has long been accused of abusing its monopoly power over access to published ...

Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re all working together – thanks to a collaboration created by Seattle’s ...

Public bodies are quoting unrealistic estimates of database search times, leading to freedom of information (FOI) requests being wrongly refused, a computer scientist has claimed. A tribunal judge ...

Michael Gusenbauer is a researcher at the Institute of Innovation Management at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and the founder of Search Smart. Search tools tailored to academic ...

Third Street Software has released Sente 1.2, the company announced on Wednesday. The upgrade to the company’s library and database search tool adds support for the Z39.50 protocol, which is used by ...