updated Fri. March 15, 2024
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TRT World
March 30, 2018
Her website, Sci-Hub, contains 64,500,000 million research papers and the number is ever-growing, according to data provided by the website's founder, Alexandra Elbakyan. Having founded the website, Alexandra's helped out a lot of independent researchers. But there's a problem. She and her teamÃâà...
The Verge
February 8, 2018
The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It was the reason that, one day in June 2015, Alexandra Elbakyan, the student and programmer with a futurist streak and a love for neuroscience blogs, opened her email to a message fromÃâà...
Science Business
November 9, 2017
Sci-Hub is a six-year old database holding almost 65 million stolen scholarly journal articles created by Alexandra Elbakyan, a graduate neuroscience student from Kazakhstan. It exists to smash paywall barriers to journals and give free online access to copyrighted research papers. Academic publishersÃâà...
The Verge
November 7, 2017
It was expected that the ACS would win, given that Alexandra Elbakyan, the site's publisher, entered no defense, but the court's decision to enforce blocked internet access to the site was a surprise to many. In speaking with The Scientist, a representative from the Electronic Frontier Foundation called theÃâà...
Labiotech.eu (blog)
October 13, 2017
Scientist Alexandra Elbakyan, grew frustrated with endless paywalls when searching for scientific papers, driving her to set up SciHub. The site's database contains around 50 million papers, and it receives tens of thousands of requests daily. Unsurprisingly, Alexandra has had to fight significant resistanceÃâà...
Quartz
September 7, 2017
The academic publishing business is starting to look a bit like the music industry did in the late 1990s. Publishers have steadily raised the cost to access journal articles in recent years, and free alternatives to their high-priced subscription model—both legal and illegal—have started to spring up. And likeÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 6, 2017
In a letter posted on Sci-Hub's homepage, Alexandra Elbakyan, the website's founder, said that she was cutting off the country's access because of “persecution” that she was facing from what she called Russia's “liberal opposition.” “The reasons for this were extremely inadequate, offensive behavior ofÃâà...
Feminism in India (blog)
August 17, 2017
Alexandra Elbakyan is a former bioengineer turned computer programmer from Kazakhstan. She is best known as the developer of Sci-Hub (the LibGen of science based academics), removing paywalls from millions of scientific research articles. If you are studying or working in a STEM field, chances areÃâà...
Nature.com
June 22, 2017
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan lost a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the science publisher Elsevier. One of the world's largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books.
Marketplace.org
April 28, 2017
In our series on "hacktivism," we take a deeper look at how hackers use their digital toolkit to push for a particular agenda. We looked at the debate over Sci Hub, a site that allowed scientific research papers, previously behind a paywall, to be shared with everyone. We heard from John Bohannon,Ãâà...
