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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, [42] [43] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [44] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [45] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [31] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...
t. e. Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [1] LibGen describes itself as a "links aggregator ...
By country or region. Comparisons. v. t. e. Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has expanded dramatically. [6][7]
Academia worldwide. Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. [2][3] Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. [4]
Budget. € 3.8 billion (2021) [1] Staff. 33,000 (2021) [1] Website. www.cnrs.fr. The French National Centre for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation [2] and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. [3]
The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
"Sci-Hub is the first known website to provide automatic and free access to paywalled academic papers" - this needs much stronger reference than that given. Websites with bootleg academic papers have been around for a long time.