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Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright.
Feb 17, 2016 · Elbakyan is a Russia-based neuroscientist turned academic Robin Hood. In 2011 she founded the website Sci-Hub, which has grown to host some 50 million academic papers — Elbakyan claims this is...
Feb 18, 2016 · Without publishers, they argue, there would be no arbiters of science. Enter Alexandra Elbakyan. Hailed as a hero by open access acolytes, she's on a mission to make the world's science...
Beyond being the founder of Sci-Hub, the world's largest pirate site for academic papers, and risking arrest as a result, Alexandra Elbakyan is a typical science graduate student: idealistic, hard-working, and relatively poor.
Feb 22, 2021 · In an exclusive interview to The Wire Science, Alexandra Elbakyan spoke of her own days in college, where she said she first felt the need for a tool like Sci-Hub, the legal issues between...
Alexandra Elbakyan, Aras Bozkurt. Abstract: The conversation with Alexandra Elbakyan intends to explore the Sci-Hub phenomenon and the core motives that initiated Sci-Hub. Accordingly, Sci-Hub is an open science project that has gone viral and is driven by people who pursue knowledge.
Feb 8, 2018 · Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment. In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard...