A Nevada district court has ordered OMICS International, a scholarly publishing company based in India, to pay the US government $50.1 million for deceptive ...

A chemistry student who allegedly poisoned his roommate with highly toxic thallium will face trial and has had his bail raised to $2.5 million, the Northampt...

In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather. Now, Yepez’s lawyer,...

A former chemistry PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Canada who confessed to poisoning a colleague has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The full...

Sci-Hub, the popular pirate site that bypasses paywalls to illicitly host millions of pay-to-read scientific papers, is being blocked in Russia after a court...

Scholarly publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society have filed a lawsuit against ResearchGate, an academic social networking site, alleging that ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) and publishing giant Elsevier have filed a second lawsuit against ResearchGate, alleging mass copyright infringement. The...

This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly hosting paywalled sc...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scie...

Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic network...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has demanded $4.8 million (£3.7 million) in damages from Sci-Hub, a website that illegally provides access to millions of...

The UK supreme court has ruled that Actavis (now part of Accord Healthcare in the UK and Ireland), which produced alternative forms of chemotherapy drug Alim...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a lawsuit against a website that illegally bypasses paywalls to provide free access to millions of academic pap...