Alexandra Elbakyan, the ‘Robin Hood’ of scientific knowledge – West Tribune
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Summary:
"Seven years ago, a graduate student from Kazakhstan named Alexandra Elbakyan started a website with a seemingly innocuous goal: to make most of the world’s research available free of charge to anyone with access to the internet. That she is now a fugitive hidden in Russia is a sad reflection of the state of the scientific publishing industry."