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From the Editor's Desk The 'Pirate Bay of Science' Adds 2 Million New Journal Articles Sci-Hub, a website dedicated to free access of scientific articles, has updated for the first time in a year. On September 5, 2011, the Sci-Hub was born. It's a place where people can find scientific studies that are typically hidden behind expensive paywalls for free. The site is constantly under legal threat and only periodically uploads. On its tenth birthday, it did what it does best. Uploaded paywalled articles to a database where anyone can read them. "In honor of such a round date, two million have been added to the server today, namely 2,337,229 new articles," neuroscientist turned scientific paper pirate Alexandra Elbakyan said in a blog post announcing the upload. Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! Management Learning, Tech, Finance, Health, Science, World News - Everything you need to get ahead at Work and in Life! 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