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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2013, we lost Aaron Swartz, widely regarded as a hero of the digital age. He finally has a successor: Kazakh student Alexandra ...

In 2016, the international journal *Nature* selected its '10 people who mattered in science.' Alongside prominent scientists like Demis Hassabis, known as the father of Google's AI AlphaGo, and ...

Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million ...

Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, ...

The $10 billion world of academic publishing has been roiled in recent months by Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old grad student from Kazakhstan who set up an online database of 50 million stolen ...

This past March, the City of London Police warned students and universities not to use the paper-sharing site ‘Sci-Hub.’ The police force designated Sci-Hub as an illegal site, stating that it “uses ...

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 ...