27-year-old Woman Shakes up the Scientific Publishing Industry
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-04-07
Summary:
" ... Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old researcher from Kazakhstan, started out with the same issues. While she was studying ‘Neuroscience and Consciousness’ in labs at Georgia Tech (US) and University of Freiburg (Germany), she was forced to pirate papers for herself and other researchers. She then became involved withonline forums for scientists dedicated to getting around paywalls. After manually sending hundreds of papers that she retrieved by request, she decided to automate the process. Et voilá, Sci-Hub was born ..."