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Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard (2010). Sci-Hub was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. [22] Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at Kazakh National Technical University [23] studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2010 ...
Researchers who use Sci-Hub often thank Elbakyan in the Acknowledgments section of their papers. [65] For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [46] [66] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [67] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [68] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [30]
Furthermore, shadow libraries may increase the impact of academics whose work is made available. According to one study from Cornell University, articles that are available on Sci-Hub receive 1.72 times as many citations as articles from journals of similar quality that are not available on Sci-Hub. [32]
Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. [2] [3] Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. [4]
A copy of The Daily Tar Heel's front page went viral on social media and was largely praised for the emotions it evoked. How UNC student newspaper’s emotional front page came together after ...
Library Genesis (shortened to LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines.
The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said on Monday, noting that U.S. universities are limiting ...
"Sci-Hub is the first known website to provide automatic and free access to paywalled academic papers" - this needs much stronger reference than that given. Websites with bootleg academic papers have been around for a long time.