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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The operator of a searchable piracy site for scientific research papers has been ordered to pay $15 million as fallout from a US copyright infringement lawsuit brought by one of the world’s leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Phys.org)—A correspondent for the Science family of journals has published an investigative piece in Science on Sci-Hub, a website that illegally publishes scholarly literature, i.e. research papers.

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 ...

A quiet rebellion against copyright is being waged on a single website by a freelance coder, using cryptocurrency where PayPal won’t do. Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of ...

In our series on “hacktivism,” we take a deeper look at how hackers use their digital toolkit to push for a particular agenda. We looked at the debate over Sci Hub, a site that allowed scientific ...

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 ...