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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.
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 18, 2016 · Enter Alexandra Elbakyan. Hailed as a hero by open access acolytes, she's on a mission to make the world's science accessible to all.
Feb 9, 2016 · On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, illegally providing access to nearly every scientific...
Mar 3, 2022 · In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, then a 22-year-old student in Almaty, Kazakhstan, got fed up with this system and decided to throw a wrench in the gears. She created a program called Sci-Hub, a...
Feb 8, 2018 · 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 from the...
Dec 13, 2021 · Sci-Hub’s founder Alexandra Elbakyan argues that, in India, copyright is “not applicable in cases such as Sci-Hub, when [material] is required for science and education”. Publishers unite to...
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...
Dec 19, 2016 · It took Alexandra Elbakyan just a few years to go from information-technology student to famous fugitive.
Feb 17, 2016 · Alexandra Elbakyan has had enough. 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...