Alexandra Elbakyan

Alexandra Elbakyan
Александра Элбакян
Alexandra Elbakyan
Elbakyan in 2021
Born (1988-11-06) 6 November 1988 (age 36)
Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
(now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
NationalityKazakhstani
Alma mater
Occupations
Known forSci-Hub
MovementOpen Access
Scientific career
FieldsNeural engineering, Computer science
Websitesci-hub.ru/alexandra

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, Armenian: Ալեքսանդրա Էլբակյան,[1][2] 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.[3][4][5][6] According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.[7]

Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen".[8] In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten "people who mattered" in science.[9] Since 2011, she has been living in Russia.[10][11][12][13]

  1. ^ Elbakyan, Alexandra. "Alexandra Elbakyan". Twitter. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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  5. ^ "Transcript and translation of Sci-Hub presentation". University of North Texas. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2017. We have a recent addition to our lineup of speakers that we'll start off the day with: Alexandra Elbakyan. As many of you know, Alexandra is a Kazakhstani graduate student, computer programmer, and the creator of the controversial Sci-Hub site.
  6. ^ Elbakyan, Alexandra; Bozkurt, Aras (2021). "A Critical Conversation with Alexandra Elbakyan: Is she the Pirate Queen, Robin Hood, a Scholarly Activist, or a Butterfly Flapping its Wings?". Asian Journal of Distance Education. 16 (1): 111–118. Archived from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  7. ^ Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S (1 March 2018). "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". eLife. 7: e32822. doi:10.7554/eLife.32822. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5832410. PMID 29424689.
  8. ^ Graber-Stiehl, Ian (8 February 2018). "Science's Pirate Queen". The Verge. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Nature's 10: Ten people who mattered this year". Nature. 540 (7634): 507–515. 12 March 2016. Bibcode:2016Natur.540..507.. doi:10.1038/540507a. PMID 30905952. In 2009, when she was a graduate student working on her final-year research project in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Elbakyan became frustrated at being unable to read many scholarly papers because she couldn't afford them...
  10. ^ Elbakyan, Alexandra. "Autobiography" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 May 2020.
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