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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 ...
For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [41] [42] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [43] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [44] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [30] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...
Furthermore, shadow libraries greatly increase the impact of academics whose work is made available. According to one study from Cornell University, articles that are on Sci-Hub receive 1.72 times as many citations as articles from journals of similar quality that are not available on Sci-Hub. [8]
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [2] DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System ; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] they also fit within the URI system ( Uniform Resource Identifier ).
The Science Citation Index Expanded (previously titled Science Citation Index) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield. The Science Citation Index (SCI) was officially launched in 1964, [ 1 ] and later was distributed via CD / DVD . [ 2 ]
The journals are grouped into four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Life Sciences; Health Sciences; Social Sciences and Humanities.; Article abstracts are freely available, and access to their full texts (in PDF and, for newer publications, also HTML) generally requires a subscription or pay-per-view purchase unless the content is freely available in open access.
PLOS (for Public Library of Science; PLoS until 2012 [1]) is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license. It was founded in 2000 and launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003.
"a 2018 study estimated that Sci-Hub provided access to 95% of all scholarly publications with issued DOI numbers" It cites this paper . In the paper, I can't find support for the claim that "Sci-Hub provided access to 95% of all scholarly publications with issued DOI numbers".