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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...