Alexandra Elbakyan | |
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Александра Элбакян | |
![]() Elbakyan in 2021 | |
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Nationality | Kazakhstani |
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Known for | Sci-Hub |
Movement | Open Access |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neural engineering, Computer science |
Website | sci-hub |
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н,[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]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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.
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...
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