Do Indian’s Interested in Sci-Hub-LibGen Lawsuit: A Look through Google Trends

This paper examined the Indian interest in Sc-hub and LibGen Lawsuit for infringing the copyright of Elsevier Inc, Wiley and ACS. The lawsuit has a potential impact on Indian researchers in freely accessing scholarly publications through Sci-hub and LibGen and thus has raised considerable interest in Indian scientific community. This has been studied through Google Trends and found that there was a constant increased interest in Sci-hub and LibGen search term after the case was taken up for hearing in the Delhi High Court.