The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan for allowing free access to a wealth of scientific knowledge. Reading time 3 minutes In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England ...

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In 2013, we lost Aaron Swartz, widely regarded as a hero of the digital age. He finally has a successor: Kazakh student Alexandra Elbakyan, 27, who runs Sci-Hub, the Napster for scientific research ...

Sci-Hub, a Russia-based online database may effectively end paywalls for academic papers, Vox reports. The website, which makes approximately 47 million academic papers accessible for free, is the ...

It’s been a rough few months for Sci-Hub, the beloved outlaw repository of scientific papers. In January its Twitter account, which had more than 180,000 followers, was permanently suspended. In ...

A single research paper can cost $30 or more even when the work behind it is publicly funded. For researchers, students and independent scholars, that price can block access to entire fields of study.

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